War Quote by Smedley Butler

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

— Smedley Butler

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in…

— Smedley Butler

“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the…

— Elliott Kay

“War is the extreme edge of capitalism: an economic system so designed that it is always tipped in balance so that the mouth of…

— Patricia J. McLean

“wars are like love affairs—easy to start, hard to end, and outrageously expensive.”

— Dave Duncan

“Every course of action you take in life needs to be seen as a war. Why? Simply put, you will be exerting effort, expending…

— Anthony D. Jensen

“(If war is an incubator for industry and weapons development, it is also a phenomenon that attracts profiteers and quacks.”

— C.J. Chivers

“War is the common harvest of all those who participate in the division and expenditure of public money, in all countries. It is the…

— Thomas Paine

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of…

— Smedley Butler

“War is always more complex. Economics, history, religion all have a role, but not for the ones dodging the bullets. They just get blown…

— Bill Carter

“War is not a polite recreation, but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to realize this and not make a game of…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Abuse of the military metaphor may be inevitable in a capitalist society, a society that increasingly restricts the scope and credibility of appeals to…

— Susan Sontag