Jonathan Demme Quotes

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Take the profits out of war.

The merchants of death have provided jobs for centuries, but that's no reason to continue it.

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.

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

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.

I think that one of the things that we all ask ourselves, whoever we are, is: who stands to make a lot of money out of this [wars]? And, certainly, it comes back to people like armaments makers, and so on and so forth.

War is good business Invest your son

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.

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

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

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

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.

We must take the profit out of war.

Our world is certainly dangerous, but it is made more dangerous, not less, by those who value profits over peace.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

One party is financing both sides in this war—namely us.

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.