George Henry Wallace Quotes

Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are better off have always been addicted to peace and order because they live comparatively better and may be the losers in civil disturbances.

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have one.

If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?

It is the conflicting interests of the man and the woman, the home and the shop, the Church and the State, which cause the economic struggle, the war and the strife with which mankind is cursed and which make all long and pray for the reign of peace.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

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

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

The wealthiest Sudanese don't know what war is. Their children are safe in school.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

I think it's very uncomfortable for people to talk to children about war, and so they don't because it's easier not to. But then you have young people at eighteen who are enlisting in the army, and they really don't have the slightest idea what they're getting into.

Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.'

I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.