Bell Hooks Quotes

War is capitalism with the gloves off …

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

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

Capitalism carries in itself war, like clouds carry rain.

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war.

War in its essence is another form of capitalism. Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them. So much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

War what is it good for? It's good for business.

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true.

Then down came the lid--the day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo. World-politics stepped in, and a war was started which has not ended yet: a "war to end war." But it merely ended art. It did not end war.

Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.