Kevin Sim Quotes

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

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

We must take the profit out of war.

Wars have economies. And I don't mean financial economies, although that's often part of it. Why do people continue fighting these wars? There are financial incentives.

Take the profits out of war.

The only neutral parties in a war are those who are making money from it.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

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

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.

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

War is a racket.... The only way to stop it is by conscription of capital before conscription of the nation's manhood.... Let the officers and directors of our armament factories, our gun builders and munitions makers and shipbuilders all be conscripted—to get $30 a month, the same wage paid to our lads in the trenches. Give capital 30 days to think it over and you will learn by that time there will be no war. That will stop the racket—that, and nothing else.

The most expensive peace is far less costly than the cheapest war.

The military market is based on human folly, not normal market precepts. Human folly goes up and down, but it always exists. It's depths have never been plumbed.

Wars are directed by bankers.

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

The munitions manufacturers and the war lords are in the saddle.

When the guns of war become a national obsession, social needs inevitably suffer.

America must get off a permanent war footing.

We have been compelled to create an armaments industry of vast proportions.

Peace is costly to the profits of the military/security complex. Washington's gigantic military and security interests are far more powerful than the peace lobby.

War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.