Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes

The greatest warriors are the ones who fight for peace.

Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.

It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

Like individuals, some peoples are naturally pacific and some naturally aggressive.

The situation is extraordinary. It is militarism run stark mad. Unless someone acting for you can bring about a different understanding there is some day to be an awful cataclysm.

Any idea that you can have a league for security is nuts, and all people who favor it are potential murderers… as long as man is man, there will be war and the only way to avoid trouble is to have the best army and navy, which we now have.

The South does not understand anything but the language of the gun.

War nourishes war.

To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the ass.

There are worse things than war.