War Industry Quotes

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

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

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

The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.

Peace, Inc. is sometimes as worrying as War, Inc. It's a way of managing public anger. We're all being managed, and we don't even know it.

With the exception of the military industrial complex, we all want a more peaceful world.

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

This is sort of the epitome of the economic elite that is converging with a political elite. It's not only the banks and insurance companies. It's the war industry and private prisons. Certainly the fossil fuel agencies. It's not only that they're supporting this campaign, they're supporters of the Clinton Foundation. And where the Clinton Foundation ends and Hillary's [Clinton] political actions begin, that too is quite troubling.

Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry.

Take the profits out of war.

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

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

The nexus between modern science and violence is obvious from the fact that 80 percent of all scientific research is devoted to the war industry and is frankly aimed at large-scale violence.

War is good business Invest your son