Arms Dealers Quotes

You wouldn’t sell me arms. I had to buy them where I could.

The existence of an immensely powerful military-industrial complex constitutes a danger to democracy, both internationally and domestically, because it follows its own logic and operates independently of popular participation.

Britain is one of the biggest arms dealers in the world, after the States. There's a lot of money in weapons deals. We sell weapons, and our responsibility ends as soon as they leave the country; they're unpacked, and then before you know it, they're spread around the world.

There is only one war I am interested in making—making war against the private munitions makers the world over.

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

The arms business is an absolutely acceptable business.

The United States is the preeminent arms pusher worldwide.

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

And who are the greater criminals-those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?

The merchants of death have provided jobs for centuries, but that's no reason to continue it.

Cultural conflicts are increasing and are understandably more dangerous today than at any other time in history. The end of the era of rationalism has been catastrophic. Armed with the same supermodern weapons, often from the same suppliers, and followed by television cameras, the members of various tribal cults are at war with one another.