“Great military leaders have to sacrifice soldiers; great captains of industry have to sacrifice people. You can't only look after the poor, and the weak, and the disabled. You've got to do what's best for the community, and that often means sacrificing innocent people.” PeopleLooksMeanCommunityPoorLeaderSacrificeMilitaryIndustryWeakSoldierInnocentCaptainsDisabledGreat MilitaryMilitary LeaderCaptains Of Industry Author:David Nasaw
“Here the system is creating an industry around the drug issue when it does nothing to stop the corrupt military that moves the drugs, and the big banks that are all in cahoots with the President and the big shots in the Congress.” DoeBigsMovingPresidentIssuesMilitaryIndustryDrugCreatingShotsCongressBig Shots Author:Jerry Brown
“Our Republic is not a pastoral, not a military, not an agricultural, not a nomadic, not a clerical, but a business civilization. Nor is there anything random, casual or accidental about the United States as a business society. It is thoroughly well integrated - organized from top to bottom for the maximum efficiency of commerce and industry, for the maximum efficiency of making money.” WellsStatesUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryIndustryCivilizationBottomMaking MoneyOrganizedRepublicCommerceEfficiencyMaximumCasualIntegratedNomadic Book:The Folks at Home Source: The Folks at Home
“The war industries in many countries and the enormous trade in weapons of all kinds generate corruption and fuel conflict throughout the world. 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.” WorldKindWarCountryPowerfulExistenceDemocracyMilitaryDangerIndustryConflictWeaponsLogicTradeComplexesCorruptionEnormousAll KindsFuelParticipationMilitary Industrial Complex Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“We need to reduce military budgets; raise living standards; engender respect for learning; support science, scholarship, invention, and industry; promote free inquiry; reduce domestic coercion; involve the workers more in managerial decisions; and promote genuine respect and understanding derived from an acknowledgement of our common humanity and our common jeopardy.” NeedsHumanityUnderstandingDecisionCommonSupportMilitaryIndustryStandardsRaisesWorkersGenuineInventionBudgetsInquiryCoercionScholarshipAcknowledgementJeopardyCommon HumanityMilitary Budget Book:Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium Source: Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
“Cities can be rebuilt, industries can be rebuilt, what really matters are strategy forces, military forces and the cadres leaders, political, military and economic.” MatterPoliticalForceCitiesLeaderEconomicMilitaryIndustryStrategyMilitary ForceCadre Author:Richard Pipes
“If you look at all the lobbyists in Washington, this is not a democracy. This is ruled by special interest groups. That includes the military, the pharmaceutical industry, the people who produce mechanized debt, GMO foods. We are prisoners.” PeopleIfsLooksInterestDemocracyGroupsSpecialMilitaryProduceIndustryDebtPrisonerSpecial InterestsLobbyistsPharmaceuticalInterest GroupsGmosPharmaceutical IndustrySpecial Interest GroupsGmo Foods Author:Deepak Chopra
“Imagine a senator running for president whose positions included halving the military budget, socializing the medical system, re-regulating the communications and electrical industries, establishing a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans, and equalizing funding for all schools regardless of property valuations - and who promised to fire Alan Greenspan, counseled withdrawal from the World Trade Organization, and, for good measure, spoke warmly of adolescent sexual experimentation. That was Barry Goldwater, conservative.” WorldRunningSchoolPresidentFireImagineMilitaryPositionCommunicationIndustryOrganizationTradePropertyConservativeMedicalIncomeBudgetsSpokesMinimumSenatorsFundingElectricalExperimentationWithdrawalWorld TradeSocializingValuationMilitary BudgetWorld Trade Organization Author:Rick Perlstein
“Legalized drugs would cause dislocations in the US economy - the prison industry for example and tens of billions spent annually on drug enforcement. But because the US economy is so large, this would be a minor blow, hardly as severe as the ultimate nightmare for the US economy, global peace, which would shutter its death industry commonly called the military/industrial complex.” Would BeCausesEconomyMilitaryExampleIndustryDrugUltimatePrisonComplexesBlowBillionsNightmareMinorsSevereEnforcementShuttersMilitary Industrial ComplexDislocationGlobal Peace Author:Charles Bowden
“One of the reasons why this country undertook military action in Iraq was that there are quite a few problems here, and perhaps attention needed to be deflected from those problems. It sometimes seems that the U.S. economy works successfully only if it gets a stimulus from the defense industry. So perhaps in addition to showing the power and the might of the United States internationally, another reason was to help the defense industry and to help the U.S. economy recover.” IfsCountrySometimesStatesReasonHelpingProblemSeemsMightActionUnitedAttentionUnited StatesEconomyMilitaryIndustryNeededIraqDefenseReason WhyStimulusMilitary Action Author:Mikhail Gorbachev