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“Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.”

Ignorance Army Males Dependent Militarism

Book:Southern discomfort

Source: Southern discomfort

“Japan redefined world power. They showed you could become a world power without having a military.”

World Military Japan Militarism World Power

Author:Patricia Schroeder

“Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.”

Way War Matter Use Bombs Militarism

Author:Arundhati Roy

“It is high time that the American people should remember a few home truths, and that we should refuse to become partners with a militarism which is still stalking unchecked under the pretense of national needs and of international justice.”

People Needs Should Stills Home Remember Justice International Refuse Partners Pretense Stalking Militarism

Book:My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences

Source: My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences

“While all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future dread, made the whole grandeur of the martial scene, and all the delusive seduction of martial music, fill my eyes frequently with tears.”

Made War Whole Eye Past Tears Circumstances Scene Reflection Dread Seduction Animated Grandeur Militarism Saddened

Book:Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

“we ought to realize by now (see Korea, see Vietnam, see Afghanistan, see Iraq, see Iran) that deploying the US military, or dealing billions of dollars a year of arms to our ally of the moment that can serve as a regional rival to our enemy of the moment, is not always the best way to make threats go away. Our military and weapons prowess is a fantastic and perfectly weighted hammer, but that doesn't make every international problem a nail.”

Source: Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

“The Constitutional Convention debated whether America should even have a standing army. ... They worried that a powerful military could rival civilian government for power in our new country, and of course they worried that having a standing army around would create too much of a temptation to use it.”

Should Country Use Government America Courses Powerful Too Much Military Standing Army Temptation Worried Conventions Rivals Civilians Militarism Constitutional Convention

Book:Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

Source: Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

“Go to a nearby military cemetery and look at the American flags stuck on each grave and think of the person buried there who was killed for global domination or for the blunders and egomania of our leadership. And remember, for every person buried there, 10 more loved that person and were shattered by the loss. Instead of saluting, softly say: 'I'm sorry.' ... We need to make Memorial Day a relic of the past.”

“[On the Barbie doll:] Her values, while somewhat Yuppified, are not so bad. Look at GI Joe. His only wardrobe is fatigues, he spends all his time trying to kill people, or getting his own innards splashed across the landscape. His big hobby is death.”

People Trying Looks Bigs Values Landscape Hobbies Fatigue Dolls Wardrobe Militarism Barbie Gis Barbie Dolls

Author:Caryl Rivers

“It has been claimed that the aim of the present war is to end war. But war cannot end war, neither can militarism destroy militarism.”

Has Beens War Ends Aim Militarism

Author:Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence

“Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military activity.”

Way War Pieces Military Objects Activity Weapons Strategy Injury Relentless Exhausting Militarism

Book:The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

Source: The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

“The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.”

Humans Has Beens Greatness Racism Killing Rainbow Isms Militarism Machismo

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!”

Lasts Safety Patriotism Refuge Scoundrels Militarism Republic Day Patriotism And Nationalism Good Patriotic Anti Patriotism

Book:Timeline

Source: Timeline

“I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.”

Men Long America Energy Poor Adventure Skills Draws Destructive Fund Vietnam Tubes Rehabilitation Militarism Demonic Breaking Silence

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward an idea of extension of boundaries.”

Ideas War Problem Spirit Courses Boundaries Chiefs Skepticism Extensions Headings Militarism

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.”

War Ends Whole Population Scales Frenzy Militarism

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.”

Lasts Patriotism Patriotic Refuge Sculptors Scoundrels Militarism Republic Day Patriotism And Nationalism Anti Patriotism

Author:William Plomer

“My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.”

Should Feelings Seems Used My Own Activity Taxes Essentials Refuse Agency Aggression Refusal Repression Avoidance Militarism

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness.”

Weakness Army Collections Militarism Great Army

Author:Christina, Queen of Sweden

“Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.”

People Needs Care Direct Competition Environmental Protection Health Care Environmental Protection Militarism

Author:Petra Kelly

“There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.”

Way Two War States Peace Views Offers Resources Privilege Resistance Revolutionary Two Ways Resisting Militarism Uncompromising

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.”

War Poor Enemy Compelled Militarism Breaking Silence

Author:Martin Luther

“Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the whole notion of civic militarism seems bothersome, and in which free speech is used to focus on our own imperfections without concern for the ghastly nature of our enemies.”

Ifs Whole Seems Used Enemy Focus Materials Periods Speech Concern Institutions Notion Eras Imperfection Free Speech Civics Decadence Militarism Ghastly Erode

Author:Victor Davis Hanson

“Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.”

Opinion Nationalism Aggression Idealistic Militarism

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“The spirit of militarism has already permeated all walks of life. Indeed, I am convinced that militarism is a greater danger here than anywhere else, because of the many bribes capitalism holds out to those whom it wishes to destroy.”

Spirit Wish Walks Greater Danger Capitalism Convinced Bribe Walks Of Life Militarism

Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.”

Ifs World Persons Values Nations Sides Revolution Convinced Radical Militarism Breaking Silence

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”

Lasts Patriotism Patriotic Refuge Scoundrels Militarism Great Patriotic Republic Day Patriotism And Nationalism Good Patriotic Anti Patriotism

Author:Samuel Johnson

“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.”

“When I think of some of the great renewals in the church I think of folks like St. Francis and Clare of Assisi who, through their lifestyle, were challenging the patterns of materialism and militarism and it affected the Christianity of their age.”

Thinking Age Challenges Church Christianity Folks Patterns Lifestyle Materialism Affected Renewal Militarism

Author:Shane Claiborne

“Women do not have to embrace principles of imperialism, corporatism and militarism in order to be a feminist. There is another feminist choice, which is consistent with the broader principles of feminism.”

Order Choices Principles Feminism Embrace Feminist Consistent Imperialism Militarism Corporatism

Author:Jill Stein

“I think about the trends at the moment in the planet and how it looks for my grandchildren. I don't panic over it, even though rationally maybe I should. I have faith that these terrible trends will change, and they will not go to their logical conclusions of climate change, militarism, pollution, overpopulation.”

“My message to you is: build up physical strength not for aggression, not for militarism, but for becoming fighting fit, all your life and all the time in every walk of life of your nation wherever you be and always to be a force for peace, international amity and goodwill.”

Fighting Force Nations Walks Becoming Fit Messages International Aggression Goodwill Walks Of Life Militarism Physical Strength Amity

Author:Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life - you might want to - when I read these to my students, they think it's Malcom X because it's so radical. And if you read nothing else - if your viewers read nothing else - then the April 4, 1967, speech at Riverside Church called "Beyond Vietnam," that's where he says the greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my country. And he connects the triplets of evil, racism, militarism, and materialism, and that connection makes him a radical.”

“In order to fight militarism under Hillary Clinton or under Donald Trump, it's very important that we cast a vote on behalf of peace and on international - and a policy based on international law and human rights.”

Humans Important Law Order Fighting Rights Policy Trump Vote Clinton International Human Rights Casts Behalf International Law Militarism

Author:Jill Stein

“We have a very large military community - veterans and others - who basically do believe in the militarism.”

Believe Community Military Veteran Militarism

Author:Julianne Malveaux

“We mustn't start off with the idea that there's only militarism, invasions, and occupations. We really have to look: What are the alternatives here?”

Looks Ideas Alternatives Occupation Invasion Militarism

Author:Mairead Corrigan

“The experience of a lot of us women is that too much money is being spent on militarism and war.”

War Too Much Militarism

Author:Mairead Corrigan

“That will be my focus: building a culture that moves away from militarism.”

Moving Culture Focus Building Militarism

Author:Mairead Corrigan

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

“We got a wonderful present from Stalin and Hitler that they never meant to give us. We were immune for 60 years or so to aggression, racism and militarism. They made us partly immune to these things. Now it appears this Stalin-Hitler present has reached its expiration date. We were spoiled by this. So maybe we are just emerging out of a relatively golden age.”

Giving Years Made Age Wonderful Racism Golden Aggression Emerging Immune Spoiled Golden Age Militarism Stalin And Hitler

Author:Amos Oz

“In Cuba, what we do not accept is the comparison of our participatory democracy with bourgeois democracy which has not solved anything for humanity. The only thing it has done is to take humanity towards a precarious point. They have created the environmental crisis, the food crisis, the water crisis and the pandemics all over the world. The reason for that is because they have taken the majority of the resources and given it to militarism paid for by the western powers because it is a great business for them; this is the real truth.”

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

“Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.”

Blood Vampire Crush Globes Imperialism Ghouls Militarism Cyclones

Author:Karl Liebknecht

“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”

Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945

“We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”

“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”

“I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.”

World Firsts Government Today Voice My Own Violence Raises Oppressed World Today Militarism Breaking Silence

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.”

Civilization Barbarism Militarism

Author:Herbert Spencer

“Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been. We have built up the most gigantic police apparatus, with informers made a national institution, and the most refined scientific system of political and mental torture. We whip the groaning masses of the country towards a theoretical future happiness, which only we can.”

“Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.”

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