Douglas MacArthur Quotes

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets.

When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.

The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.

The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

Armament firms have been active in fomenting war scares and in persuading their own countries to increase their armaments.

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.

War and preparation for war is not a matter of national honor and national defense, but a matter of profit for the few.

the world's chief war-monger

No soldier starts a war—they only give their lives to it. Wars are started by you and me, by bankers and politicians, excitable women, newspaper editors, clergymen who are ex-pacifists, and Congressmen with vertebrae of putty.

... a caricature of Mr. Military Industrial Complex.

Defeat [in World War II] was better for the nation than if we had become extremely militaristic as a result of victory.

Nations have been lashed unwillingly into war by high powered propaganda carried on under the supervision of swivel chair gentlemen who keep far away from the danger point in all wars, and at the same time the people have been made the victims of the wretched individuals who have made countless millions of dollars out of, so to speak, the dead flesh of the youth of the world.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear--kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor-with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it

Of course the people don't want war... It is the leaders...who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along...all you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

The three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish, and the Roosevelt Administration. Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and out government.

I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?

In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.

All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.