Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace.
Arnold Joseph ToynbeeTag: history peace war militarism
The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
Jeannette RankinTag: peace war propaganda militarism
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
Barbara W. TuchmanTag: military wwi militarism
Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons.
Arundhati RoyTag: militarism armies altruism wars
What does the corpse care who was right and who was wrong?
Manuel AzañaTag: war militarism
Men can, of course, be stirred into life by being dressed up in uniforms and made to blare out chants of war. It must be confessed that this is one way for men to break bread with comrades and to find what they are seeking, which is a sense of something universal, of self-fulfillment. But of this bread men die.
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryTag: comradeship self-fulfillment militarism
He explained to Atro that he now understood why the army was organized as it was. It was indeed quite necessary. No rational form of organization would serve the purpose. He simply had not understood that the purpose was to enable men with machine guns to kill unarmed men and women easily and in great quantities when told to do so. Only he still could not see where courage, or manliness, or fitness entered in.
Ursula K. Le GuinTag: militarism
You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders
Woodrow WilsonTag: militarism civilian-control-of-the-military garrison-state
The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
Simon SchamaTag: war warfare militarism
if Germany won it would change the course of our civilization and make the United States a military nation [and] it would check his policy for a better international ethical code
Woodrow WilsonTag: militarism world-war-i garrison-state
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