Steven Spielberg Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.

Take the profits out of war.

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

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

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

Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time.

They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.

The funny thing about war is that people feel you need to be morally outraged. I feel morally outraged about it, and I've been doing it for long enough to feel morally outraged, because I have been in massacre scenes in West Africa, and I've been doing this for a long time now.

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

Wars have economies. And I don't mean financial economies, although that's often part of it. Why do people continue fighting these wars? There are financial incentives.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

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

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

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