Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.
Abraham LincolnTags: diplomacy militarism
Afghanistan—where empires go to die.
Mike MalloyTags: imperialism militarism afghanistan
What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?
W.E.B. Du BoisTags: war imperialism aggression arms militarism
Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.
David T. DellingerTags: war militarism arms-race
War grows out of ordinary human nature.
Bertrand RussellTags: war militarism
No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible.
W.E. WoodwardTags: christianity military militarism
Maybe he hadn't thought the war through. It had seemed like simple fun when he had first pictured it, with a glorious beginning, a difficult but valor-filled middle, and a victorious end. He hadn't accounted for the fact that there might not be much of a resolution to the battle, and he hadn't imagined what it would feel like when the war just sort of ended, without anyone admitting defeat and congratulating him for his bravery.
Dave EggersTags: war childrens militarism
Max had to think about these new developments. He hadn't liked getting hit by a rock--his stomach still ached from then rock Judith had thrown--but then again, when his team had used rocks on Alexander, it had caused him to surrender. Now the Bad Guys only had three soldiers left, which would make victory for Max's team more likely. So now it made perfect sense. He was wrong to ban rocks, or even animals. The key was to use all the weapons at one's disposal, but to just make sure you won when you used them.
Dave EggersTags: war childrens militarism
So, whenever the subject of Iraq came up, as it did keep on doing through the Clinton years, I had no excuse for not knowing the following things: I knew that its one-party, one-leader state machine was modeled on the precedents of both National Socialism and Stalinism, to say nothing of Al Capone. I knew that its police force was searching for psychopathic killers and sadistic serial murderers, not in order to arrest them but to employ them. I knew that its vast patrimony of oil wealth, far from being 'nationalized,' had been privatized for the use of one family, and was being squandered on hideous ostentation at home and militarism abroad. (Post-Kuwait inspections by the United Nations had uncovered a huge nuclear-reactor site that had not even been known about by the international community.) I had seen with my own eyes the evidence of a serious breach of the Genocide Convention on Iraqi soil, and I had also seen with my own eyes the evidence that it had been carried out in part with the use of weapons of mass destruction. I was, if you like, the prisoner of this knowledge. I certainly did not have the option of un-knowing it.
Christopher HitchensTags: fascism genocide iraq iraq-war militarism bill-clinton united-nations psychopaths oil national-socialism ba-ath-party ba-athist-iraq al-capone crime-family genocide-convention invasion-of-kuwait kuwait nationalisation nuclear-reactor-technology privatisation serial-killers stalinism wmd
...overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty.
George WashingtonTags: militarism
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