Miriam Makeba Quotes

Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.

The possession of highly developed armed forces by small nations is disastrous in all its consequences.

Wars are made to make debt.

Because the United States now leads the world in arms deliveries by such a wide margin, Washington has little credibility when it chides other governments for transferring weapons to U. S. enemies.

I supported the efforts in Honduras to stop the flow of arms from Nicaragua across to El Salvador.

This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

War is just one more big government program.

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

Britain is one of the biggest arms dealers in the world, after the States. There's a lot of money in weapons deals. We sell weapons, and our responsibility ends as soon as they leave the country; they're unpacked, and then before you know it, they're spread around the world.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

The U.S. spent years and years and billions of dollars to build the Iraqi army only to watch it collapse and hand over so many of its weapons.

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.

I know that Britain and the United States and others ship arms in the Middle East, 10 or maybe 100 times more than the Russian does.

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

We are funding both sides in the War on Terrorism. That’s what happens when you leave it to the market.

One party is financing both sides in this war—namely us.

Whenever there is talk of peace, there is anger in the military- industrial- political complex.

The United States is the preeminent arms pusher worldwide.

In peace and war it's always money.