Interest Quote by Oscar Arias

It's clear to me that many weapons sales are very short-sighted. The U.S. and other arms-producing countries sell weapons for a variety of reasons,…

— Oscar Arias

We are calling on countries that supply weapons to comply with certain restrictions: not to sell weapons to human rights abusers, not to sell…

— Oscar Arias

The problem is that the global arms trade is entirely free of international regulation. In a world in which the flow of consumer goods…

— Hilary Benn

Britain is one of the biggest arms dealers in the world, after the States. There's a lot of money in weapons deals. We sell…

— Paul Conroy

From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building collapses or…

— Eduardo Galeano

If a country develops an economic system that is based on how to pay for the war, and if the amounts of fixed capital…

— Marilyn Waring

I can honestly say I've never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons will be…

— Jo Brand

Not only do we still engage in wars far away from our homes, which settle nothing and fuel extremism in the aftermath, we sell…

— Declan McKenna

80 percent of the export of armament in the world comes from the G8 countries. [The] United States alone exports about 50 percent of…

— Amartya Sen

It's very hard to get other countries to give up their weapons when you're busy developing a new one.

— John F. Kerry

Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.

— Judy Collins

We wake up to find the whole world building competitive trade barriers, just as we found it a few years ago building competitive armaments.…

— Owen D. Young