War Profiteers, War Profiteering Quotes

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

The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief.

… war is a matter not so much of arms as of money

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

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Were the expense of war to be defrayed always by a revenue raised within the year ... wars would in general be more speedily concluded, and less wantonly undertaken

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.

The three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish, and the Roosevelt Administration. Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and out government.

One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

Show me who makes a profit from war, and I'll show you how to stop the war.

Beware the influence of the military-industrial complex.

... a caricature of Mr. Military Industrial Complex.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society.

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.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

I do not want to lead an army of mercenaries.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.

… the bankers are for bullets—for the fool patriots that enlist at paupers' wages to stop the bullets, while the bankers clip coupons, boost food prices, increase dividends, and pile up millions and billions for themselves

We have been compelled to create an armaments industry of vast proportions.