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“This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that's not what makes us strong. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores. Instead, it is that American spirit - that American promise - that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend.”

“States care about relative wealth, because economic might is the foundation of military might.”

States Might Care Wealth Economic Military Foundation Relative

Author:John Mearsheimer

“The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.”

Humans States Character Might Values Wealth Moral Military Materials Prove Achievement Israel Prove It Human Values Moral Character Material Wealth

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“The money that fueled the explosion of gluttony at the top had to come from somewhere or, more specifically, from someone. Since no domestic oil deposits had been discovered, no new seams of uranium or gold, and since the war in Iraq enriched only the military contractors and suppliers, it had to come from other Americans.”

War Wealth Military Gold Iraq Oil Explosions Deposits Gluttony Contractor Uranium Suppliers

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“Nations are political and military entities, and so are blocs of nations. But it doesn't necessarily follow from this that they are also the basic, salient entities of economic life or that they are particularly useful for probing the mysteries of economic structure, the reasons for rise and decline of wealth. Indeed, the failure of national governments and blocs of nations to force economic life to do their bidding suggests some sort of essential irrelevance.”

Reason Government Political Force Nations Wealth Mystery Economic Military Essentials Economics Structure Decline Entity Bidding Irrelevance Probing

Book:Cities and the Wealth of Nations

Source: Cities and the Wealth of Nations

“I believe the American people have the capacity to create a new movement, which would change the direction of our nation from being a military power to being a peaceful nation, using our enormous wealth for human needs, here and abroad.”

People Needs Believe Humans I Believe Nations Wealth Military Movement Capacity Enormous Peaceful Human Needs Military Power

Author:Howard Zinn

“The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.”

States Wealth Military Possession Corruption Elites Immense Ruling Prestige Oligarchy

Book:The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America

Source: The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America

“Wars are caused by undefended wealth.”

War Peace Wealth Military Prosperity

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.”

States Seems Energy Wealth Leader Military Design Resources Defense Aggressive Nazi Consumed

Book:The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

Source: The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

“Never discount a country by their size or resources. What may not be useful to yours, could be greatly beneficial to other lands in need. Everything exists with a purpose. True wealth is what cannot be seen. While one country can have a huge powerful military, another land may lack the budget and manpower to compete with it -- but be filled with happy citizens.”

Needs May Country Purpose Wealth Powerful Land Military Huge Citizens Resources Filled Size Budgets Beneficial Discounts True Wealth Manpower

Author:Suzy Kassem

“I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.”

Looks Country America Purpose Wealth Moral Military Strength Morality Future Our Country Patriotic Restraint Great Future Future Of America Looking Forward To The Future

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963

“Student debt is structured to be a burden for life. The indebted cannot declare bankruptcy, unlike Donald Trump. Current student debt is estimated to be over $1.45 trillion. There are ample resources for that simply from waste, including the bloated military and the enormous concentrated private wealth that has accumulated in the financial and general corporate sector under neoliberal policies. There is no economic reason why free education cannot flourish from schools through colleges and university. The barriers are not economic but rather political decisions.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.”

Artist Culture Literature Individual Term Wealth Quality Military Poet Materials Civilization Achievement Philosopher Prosperity Representatives Military Power Material Wealth

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism