M Quotes
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“Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.”
“Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.”
“Militaristic foreign policy is destroying America.”
“Militarists say that to gain peace we must prepare for war. I think we get what we prepare for. If we want a world where peace is valued, we must teach ourselves to believe that peace is not a ‘utopian vision’ but a real responsibility that must be worked for each and every day in small and large ways. Any one of us can contribute to building a world where peace and justice prevail.”
“Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws.”
“Military action without politics is like a tree without a root.”
“Military activities (are) not a role for the United States. There needs to be a number of steps that Maliki and his government must take to demonstrate that he is committed to an inclusive Iraq, something he has not done up to date.”
“Military analysis is not an exact science. To return to the wisdom of Sun Tzu, and paraphrase the great Chinese political philosopher, it is at least as close to art. But many logical methods offer insight into military problems-even if solutions to those problems ultimately require the use of judgement and of broader political and strategic considerations as well. Military affairs may not be as amenable to quantification and formal methodological treatment as economics, for example. However, even if our main goal in analysis is generally to illuminate choices, bound problems, and rule out bad options - rather than arrive unambiguously at clear policy choices-the discipline of military analysis has a great deal to offer. Moreover, simple back-of-the envelope methodologies often provide substantial insight without requiring the churning of giant computer models or access to the classified data of official Pentagon studies, allowing generalities and outsiders to play important roles in defense analytical debates.
We have seen all too often (in the broad course of history as well as in modern times) what happens when we make key defense policy decisions based solely on instinct, ideology, and impression. To avoid cavalier, careless, and agenda-driven decision-making, we therefore need to study the science of war as well-even as we also remember the cautions of Clausewitz and avoid hubris in our predictions about how any war or other major military endeavor will ultimately unfold.”
“Military and absolutist regimes are undoubtedly well fitted to get the jump on an unsuspecting or unprepared enemy; but the history of modern warfare proves that they cannot win over representative governments in the long run, provided that people behind those governments have the heart to sustain initial punishment, and both the will and the resources to fight back.”
Source: History of United States Naval Operations in World War II
“Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. II. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American revolution: (v. 3) June, 1775-July, 1776. (v. 4) July, 1776-July] 1777. (v. 5) July, 1777-July, 1778. (v. 6) July, 1778-March, 1780. (v. 7) March, 1780-April, 1781. (v. 8) April, 1781-December, 1783
“Military cemeteries around the world are packed with brainwashed dead soldiers who were convinced God was on their side. America prays for God to destroy our enemies. Our enemies pray for God to destroy us. Somebody's gonna be disappointed! Somebody's wasting their time! Could it be.. everyone?”
“Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.”
Source: The Rabin Memoirs
“Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.”
“Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.”
“Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.”
“Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.”
“Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude.”
Source: Democracy in America
“Military families so much appreciate the love, support and prayers.”
“Military folk," Neal said with exaggerated patience, shaking his head. "The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick.”
“Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.”
Source: God Emperor of Dune
“Military force is irrelevant to many of the most urgent threats we face. If we are to solve our myriad domestic problems and revitalize our economy we need to be more selective about our involvement in foreign crises large and small.”
“Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom
“Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.”
“Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.”
“Military inclusion has never been a central demand from trans populations, who consistently name criminalization, immigration enforcement, poverty and joblessness as top priorities.”
“Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.”
“Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive.”
Source: C.B. Greenfield: A Little Madness
“Military intelligence, two words combined that cant make sense”
“Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing 'rogue states', opposing 'Islamic fundamentalism', or containing China.”
“Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty.”
“Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.”
“Military is legal terrorism.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Military is Legal Terrorism
(Ceasefire Sonnet)
Any planet that confuses guns
with gallantry is a planet of apes.
Prioritizing military over education,
we only build a world full of terrorists.
Military is just legal terrorism,
To fathom this you gotta be human.
What do monkeys know of peace and love,
When guns are their emblem of patriotism!
We don't need civilian disarmament,
We need absolute universal disarmament.
Only a worldwide ban on firearms production,
Can facilitate a paradigm of peaceful coexistence.
Let's see which nation has the heart and backbone,
To legislate absolute ban on firearms manufacture!
Let's see who are the first civilized people,
Let's see which nation is the first peacemaker!
What's the point of one ceasefire,
Let's pull the plug on all war.
Let's disband all military, and siphon
those funds to housing, education and healthcare.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Military is not social service, military is the antithesis of society and service.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Military is people-approved genocide.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“Military is the ultimate failure of education.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Military is the ultimate failure of education, true education shapes minds into instrument of peace, not pawns of legal persecution and terrorism.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Military jets sank The Intrepid and blew up the entire pier.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.”
“Military men are capable of abominable crimes; witness, in our recent time alone, Chile, My Lai, Greece. But it is a "liberal" fallacy that equates the military mind with real evil and makes it the exclusive province of lieutenants or generals; the secondary evil of which the military is frequently capable is aggressive, romantic, melodramatic, thrilling, orgasmic. Real evil, the suffocating evil of Auschwitz—gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring—was perpetrated almost exclusively by civilians.”
Source: Sophie’s Choice
“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”
“Military men are the scourges of the world.”
“Military men say that troops can stand twenty percent losses; more than that, they go to pieces. But we had many an outfit with only twenty percent survivors and they went on fighting.”
Source: World's End
“Military metaphors are rarely exact, but sending Republicans against Democrats when the issue hangs in the balance is nearly always as futile as sending George B. McClellan against Robert E. Lee, the Italians against Marshal Montgomery's desert rats or an Arab armored division against an Israeli rifle company. The copy desk can write the headline before the battle begins and take the rest of the night off.”
“Military missions are not democratic development aid.”
“Military missions cannot be a normal tool of politics, but instead must remain the great exception.”
“Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.”
“Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to extort confessions.”
“Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.”
“Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.”