Billy Bragg Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons 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.

War is capitalism with the gloves off …

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses.

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

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

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

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.

Let's face it, war in its essence is another form of capitalism.

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.

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.

War is not a jobs program.

Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.