Industrial Warfare Quotes

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.

The work for giants...to serve well the guns!

England's battles, it used to be said, were won on the playing fields of Eaton.... America’s battles can be won on the assembly lines of Detroit.

The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.

The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on at that point we smash.

What distinguished the First World War from all wars before it was the massive power of the antagonists.

Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack.

If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take the Gospels seriously, how can we not see industrial warfare - with its inevitable massacre of innocents - as a most shocking perversion? By the standard of all scriptures, neglect of the poor, of widows and orphans, of the sick, the homeless, the insane, is an abominable perversion.