Ernest Hemingway Quotes

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

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

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

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.

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

I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer.

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war - the brutal corrupting viciousness of its doing to the minds and bodies of men; and, that my photographs might be a powerful emotional catalyst to the reasoning which would help this vile and criminal stupidity from beginning again.

Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I've never heard of a clean one.

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

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.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game - the soldiers - into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war.

My mind revolts and my soul cannot support the weight of so much evil: theft, rape, pillage, deaths, and murders, fires and devastation; the virgin violated, the cry of the widow and the orphan; the father armed against his son and each one looking for his brother to kill him; of those who have migrated; of the thousands who have fled; of the bodies stretched out in the public streets; of the bones which cover the fields and of so much blood shed on Venezuela’s soil.

One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people—and kill them.

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

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

They say they blame it on a song when someone kills a cop, what music did they listen to when they bombed Iraq?

Soldiers will continue to die in wars that few can convincingly explain why we are fighting.