Best mass & war Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.”

War States Levels Moral Dangerous Mass Intellectual Lows Entity Antisocial

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.”

Two War Evil Mass Threat Unemployment 1930s

Author:James Meade

“A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, i.e. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment.”

“The US and UK governments' relentless backing for the global spread of genetically modified seeds was in fact the implementation of a decades long policy of the Rockefeller Foundation since the 1930's, when it funded Nazi eugenics research - i.e. mass-scale population reduction, and control of darker-skinned races by an Anglo-Saxon white elite. As some of these circles saw it, war as a means of population reduction was costly and not that efficient.”

“The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then is an essential mass-psychological factor in imperialistic wars.”

Kind War Natural Example Essentials Mass Various Psychological Factors Substitutes Aggression Brutal Gratification Suppression Sadism

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“Not only did waging war against Hitler fail to save the Jews, it may be that the war itself brought on the Final Solution of genocide. This is not to remove the responsibility from Hitler and the Nazis, but there is much evidence that Germany's anti-Semitic actions, cruel as they were, would not have turned to mass murder were it not for the psychic distortions of war, acting on already distorted minds. Hitler's early aim was forced emigration, not extermination, but the frenzy of it created an atmosphere in which the policy turned to genocide.”

Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

“Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only slightly more remote dangers. One of these is the stupefaction of man (the "gray mass," to use the cynical term of bourgeois prognosticators) by mass culture with its intentional or commercially motivated lowering of intellectual level and content, with its stress on entertainment or utilitarianism, and with its carefully protective censorship.”

“Much of the image of the amazingness of America comes from the movies into other cultures. And it's much the same thing when you reverse it. Much of Africa is presented through poverty, through drought and war. [But] you're not presenting people, you're not presenting countries, you're not presenting complexity, and so people can't care about an amorphous mass called Africa.”

People War Country Care America Culture Poverty Mass Complexity Reverse Presenting Drought Other Cultures

Author:Chris Abani

“If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the US, realise they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value. It will be a difficult century, and ugly, but I don't think that in the end people are so stupid as to kill themselves off.”

“Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap.”

War Months Mass Murder Spending Expensive Saturn Titans Good Science

Author:Caitlín R. Kiernan

“An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity gap' is truly a new idea. I can think of no other new concept that so fully condenses all of the challenges we face as a human civilization than the 'ingenuity gap'. Homer-Dixon has found a way to unite all of our concerns about economics, war, population growth, complexity, etc. under a single heading. He is one of an elite group of academics who can write for a mass audience.”

“Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.”

Knows War Country Earth Faces Weapons Mass Program Destruction Iraq Active Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“The supernatural Christ of the New Testament, the god of orthodox Christianity, is dead. But priestcraft lives and conjures up the ghost of this dead god to frighten and enslave the masses of mankind. The name of Christ has caused more persecutions, wars, and miseries than any other name has caused. The darkest wrongs are still inspired by it. The wails of anguish that went up from Kishenev, Odessa, and Bialystok still vibrate in our ears.”

“It is fear which leads us to war, ... It is fear which leads us to believe that we must kill or be killed. Fear which leads us to attack those who have not attacked us. Fear which leads us to ring our nation in the very heavens with weapons of mass destruction.”

Believe War Heaven Nations Weapons Mass Destruction Rings Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction

Author:Dennis Kucinich

“The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.”

Years War Loss Perspective Mass Misery Alternatives Casualties

Author:Boris Trajkovski

“We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.”

Knows War Poor Poverty Millions Weapons Mass Destruction Billions Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Misdirection

Author:Joseph Lowery

“The Americans had not played a very prominent part in the war of 1914-1918, he (Adolf Hitler) thought, and moreover, had not made any great sacrifices of blood. They would certainly not withstand a trial by fire, for their fighting qualities were low. In general no such thing as an American people existed as a unit; they were nothing but a mass of immigrants from many nations and many races.”

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Author:Albert Speer

“If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin.”

People Ifs War Whole Together Behinds Arms Cold Mass Europe Lays Iron Occupation Southern Cold War Eastern Curtains Iron Curtain Butchery

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event takes place, when at the front an army is in danger, or defeated, or victorious, the rather obscure news which the cultivated man does not quite understand, excite in the masses an emotion which surprises him and in which, once the experts have informed him of the actual military situation, he recognizes the populace's perception of that "aura" surrounding great events and visible for hundreds of kilometers.”

“On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.”

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Author:Stephen Harper

“Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our fathers-settler-colonialism, the doctrine of discovery, the myth of manifest destiny, white supremacy, theft and systematic killing-to the contemporary condition of permanent war, invasion and occupation, mass incarceration, and the constant use and threat of state violence.”

“America has entered a great struggle that tests our strength, and even more our resolve. Our nation is patient and steadfast. We continue to pursue the terrorists in cities and camps and caves across the earth. We are joined by a great coalition of nations to rid the world of terror. And we will not allow any terrorist or tyrant to threaten civilization with weapons of mass murder. Now and in the future, Americans will live as free people, not in fear, and never at the mercy of any foreign plot or power.”

“An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.”

Ifs War Ends Action Nations Violence Mass Ideals Direct Revolutionary Latter Divorced Bourgeois Peace War Seducing Pillaging

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“I'm not pro-war. But I think war has been the dominant condition of humankind, and peace has been the anomaly - certainly sustained periods of peace that profit great masses of people - and I think war has worked, even awful hellish wars: worked to staunch fascist aggression in Europe, worked to preserve the Union after secession in the United States, etc. Not always, maybe not often, but to say never is to reject history in favor of a wishful unreality.”

“I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.”

War Country Suffering Lost Mass Capacity Refuse Rely Honour Bows Rely Upon

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“There is no doubt that . Saddam Hussein has reinvigorated his weapons programs. Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue apace and may be back to pre-Gulf War status. In addition, Saddam continues to redefine delivery systems and is doubtless using the cover of a licit missile program to develop longer-range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies.”

“There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.”

People Years Firsts War States Forget Lessons Mass Capable Liars Murderer Conspirators Indochina

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.”

War Government Mass Murder Workers Refuse

Author:Keir Hardie

“In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious logic of self-interest that saw us through the Cold War would collapse if the leaders of one nuclear state came to welcome, or ceased to fear mass death.”

“We must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect war may have on them. To assess these things in all their ramifications and diversity is plainly a colossal task. Rapid and correct appraisal of them clearly calls for the intuition of a genius; to master all this complex mass by sheer methodical examination is obviously impossible. Bonaparte was quite right when he said that Newton himself would quail before the algebraic problems it could pose.”

“It is good that since the outbreak of the war with Japan, more and more revolutionary writers have been coming to Yan'an... But it does not necessarily follow that... they have integrated themselves completely with the masses here. The two must be completely integrated if we are to push ahead with our revolutionary work.”

Ifs Doe Has Beens Two War Mass Revolutionary Japan Integrated Outbreaks

Author:Mao Zedong

“The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war.”

War Force Mass Forging

Book:The challenge of facts: and other essays

Source: The challenge of facts: and other essays

“The second term of the Bush administration and first five years of the Obama presidency have been devoted to codifying and institutionalizing the vast and unchecked powers that are typically vested in leaders in the name of war. Those powers of secrecy, indefinite detention, mass surveillance, and due-process-free assassination are not going anywhere. They are now permanent fixtures not only in the US political system but, worse, in American political culture.”

“He (former President Gerald Ford) made it very clear that he did not agree with the reasons President Bush laid out for the war, namely the belief that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or that there was some obligation that the United States or the president had to expand democracy.”

“So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity.”

War Progress Mass Prosperity

Book:After America: Get Ready for Armageddon

Source: After America: Get Ready for Armageddon

“It seems to me an utterly futile task to prescribe rules and limitations for the conduct of war. War is not a game; hence one cannot wage war by rules as one would in playing games. Our fight must be against war itself. The masses of people can most effectively fight the institution of war by establishing an organization for the absolute refusal of military service.”

People War Seems Fighting Games Military Mass Tasks Organization Absolutes Institutions Limitation Refusal Playing Games Military Service Against War

Book:Einstein on Peace

Source: Einstein on Peace

“The foreign policy, you have to know how to pick and choose. There's no way, if Saddam [Hussein] had not had weapons of mass destruction, I would have gone, because I don't believe that the U.S. should be involved directly in civil wars.”

“The number of nuclear bombs on the planet today - the sheer quantity of weapons of mass destruction in the possession of people and governments throughout the world - along with the fact that the use of brute force and militarism is an almost knee-jerk way of problem-solving on the planet today, makes the eradication of war the great moral issue of this generation.”

“I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?”

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Author:Malachy McCourt

“First of all, [St. Stephen's] is a radical church. It was one of the first DC churches to have gay ceremonies. A woman said mass there, which almost got a priest excommunicated there; Black Panthers spoke at the church; it was a sanctuary for civil rights protesters and anti-war protesters.”

Firsts Said War Black Church Rights Gay Mass Civil Rights Radical Spokes Priests Anti War Ceremony Sanctuary Panthers Black Panther

Author:Ian MacKaye

“The power of art is as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; it's just where war destroys, art inspires. But in order to inspire, you need to react to it. And, if it doesn't penetrate your mind, you can't react to it.”

Ifs Needs Mind Art War Order Powerful Inspire Weapons Mass Art Is Destruction Penetrate Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass extinctions, wars, and collapsing civilizations.”

Ifs War Pay Cities Fire Cutting Civilization Mass Storm Flood Carbon Extinction Drought Gasoline Pipeline Mass Extinction

Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“When the masses begin to vibrate with an energy of love, the world will no longer be a container for war, violence, and lies.”

World War Lying Energy Violence Mass Vibrate Containers

Author:Gabrielle Bernstein

“We have absolute support from all our masses inside our occupied territories and even outside our occupied territories. The "War of the Camps" [in Lebanon] is another picture of this strong support of our masses.”

War Strong Support Mass Absolutes Territory Camps Lebanon

Author:Yasser Arafat

“The term "genocide" is often incorrectly assumed to mean extreme examples of mass murder associated with war, with the death of millions of individuals, as, for instance in Cambodia. Although clearly the Holocaust was the most extreme of all genocides, the bar set by the Nazis is not the bar required to be considered genocide. Most importantly, genocide does not have to be complete to be considered genocide.”

Mean Doe War Individual Term Millions Example Mass Murder Extremes Bars Instance Genocide Holocaust Nazi Cambodia

Author:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“We haven't had a world war in a long time. We do have mass movements of people out of Syria and North Africa. But, fundamentally, if you take Japan, you're complaining that the economy isn't booming, they'd like to have slightly higher inflation.”

People Ifs World Long War Economy Havens Movement Higher Mass Long Time Complaining War Of The Worlds Japan World War I Syria Inflation North Africa

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to understanding that the war on drugs has resulted only in the empowerment of vast criminal enterprises and the destruction of democracies around the world. And all that is coming to a miserable, horrific halt.”

“If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the mass media.”

Ifs War Turns Emotion Audience Media Mass Manipulation Mass Media Kosovo

Author:Paul Virilio

“There can be no doubt about this. It even held true for the soldiers involved in the Kosovo War. For the soldiers stayed mostly in their barracks! In this way, polar inertia has truly become a mass phenomenon. And not only for the TV audiences watching the war at home but also for the army that watches the battle from the barracks.”

Way War Home Watches Audience Doubt Tvs Involved Battle Mass Army Soldier No Doubt Phenomenon Inertia Kosovo

Author:Paul Virilio

“If the choice is go to war or end up with an American city hit by weapon of mass destruction, then the choice is easy.”

Ifs War Ends Choices Easy Cities Weapons Mass Destruction Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction American Cities

Author:James Inhofe

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