Jill Stein Quotes

ISIS is in many ways a creation of the Syrian regime.

You are going to regret the end of the cold war because violence is going to leak out free from the control of states.

The threats against Israel are growing.

Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction.

Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war.

Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.

We call for, actually, a weapons embargo to the Middle East, which we can lead since we are supplying the majority of weapons which, in fact, then find their way into all parties on all sides.

There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.

If peace should break out, what are we going to do with all these weapons.

The United States is the preeminent arms pusher worldwide.

Stored today in the arsenals of the most enlightened Christian nations are enough bullets to kill every man, woman and child on earth.

We send them the instruments [arms] and they pull the trigger.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

Armament firms have been active in fomenting war scares and in persuading their own countries to increase their armaments.

The munitions manufacturers and the war lords are in the saddle.

European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat

The fact is, the Middle East has been going crazy for 50, 60, 70 years. So it's not like, 'Oh, I need an ISIS joke.'

Syria is hosting the most dangerous terrorist organizations.

We must stop arming terrorists.

I've often said that the ISIS-Syria-Iraq mess is about as bad as it could be.

In war trivial causes produce momentous events.

War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.

Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will never be safe

The best way to perpetuate poverty is spending on arms, and poverty itself is a form of violence. The wealthy industrialized countries have been too slow to recognize this. I hope that in this new century and new millennium, the world will learn that if you want peace, you must prepare for peace, plan for peace, work for it, and comply with its dictates. Lasting peace will never be achieved with the instruments of war.

There is nothing in common between al-Assad and ISIS, they fight against each other.