Roger Waters Quotes

The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.

The only neutral parties in a war are those who are making money from it.

I think that one of the things that we all ask ourselves, whoever we are, is: who stands to make a lot of money out of this [wars]? And, certainly, it comes back to people like armaments makers, and so on and so forth.

War is good business Invest your son

The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

War and preparation for war is not a matter of national honor and national defense, but a matter of profit for the few.

Show me who makes a profit from war, and I'll show you how to stop the war.

Nations have been lashed unwillingly into war by high powered propaganda carried on under the supervision of swivel chair gentlemen who keep far away from the danger point in all wars, and at the same time the people have been made the victims of the wretched individuals who have made countless millions of dollars out of, so to speak, the dead flesh of the youth of the world.

Peace is costly to the profits of the military/security complex. Washington's gigantic military and security interests are far more powerful than the peace lobby.

If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.

If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.

Wars have economies. And I don't mean financial economies, although that's often part of it. Why do people continue fighting these wars? There are financial incentives.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

Endless money forms the sinews of war. Nervi belli pecunia infinita.

The military market is based on human folly, not normal market precepts. Human folly goes up and down, but it always exists. It's depths have never been plumbed.

... a caricature of Mr. Military Industrial Complex.

You believe you are dying for the fatherland—you die for some industrialist.