War makes persons special, peoples cheap.

Spare the rod and spoil the Memorial Day rotisserie.

He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword … unless he’s a general.

Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace.

If everyone loves you, maybe you don’t need so many tanks.

If you can’t handle the answer, then don’t ask the question.

The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the State, that a man does not consider himself honored in defending it, at...

Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.

The policies the US government is following are dangerous for its citizens. It’s true that you can bomb or buy out anybody that you want to, but you can’t control the rage that’s building in...

Maybe he hadn’t thought the war through. It had seemed like simple fun when he had first pictured it, with a glorious beginning, a difficult but valor-filled middle, and a victorious end. He hadn’t accounted...

When you live in the United States, with the roar of the free market, the roar of this huge military power, the roar of being at the heart of empire, it’s hard to hear the...

Max had to think about these new developments. He hadn’t liked getting hit by a rock–his stomach still ached from then rock Judith had thrown–but then again, when his team had used rocks on Alexander,...

Only Americans can hurt America.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

What does the corpse care who was right and who was wrong?

No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.

Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the...

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

When he won, it proved that God was on his side. When he didn’t win, it meant that God wanted him to try harder.

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible.

When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead”When you see millions of the mouthless deadAcross your dreams in pale battalions go,Say not soft things as other men have said,That you’ll remember. For you need not...

What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?