Gary Ross Quotes

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

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

Like all wars, conflicts bring on great opportunities for business.

If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work.

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

We must take the profit out of war.

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

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

Endless money forms the sinews of war. Nervi belli pecunia infinita.

Show me who makes a profit from war, and I'll show you how to stop the war.

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

War is hugely profitable. It creates so much money because it's so easy to spend money very fast. There are huge fortunes to be made. So there is always an encouragement to promote war and keep it going, to make sure that we identify people who are 'others' whom we can legitimately make war upon.

If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.

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

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.

War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.

Take the profits out of war.

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.

It is not armaments that cause war, but war that causes armaments.

Wars are directed by bankers.

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

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.

War is capitalism with the gloves off …

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.