War Is A Racket Quotes

#1. War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

Smedley Butler

#2. 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.

Smedley Butler

#3. I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.'

Jesse Ventura

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

David Hackworth

#5. War's a racket. No doubt. But war is a racket for the politicians, not the soldiers.

Sean Beaudoin

#6. War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War is not the answer.

Coleen Rowley

#7. War is a racket. The few profit, the many pay.

Noam Chomsky

#8. If I messed up at the Oscars, I wouldn't be invited back.

Ansel Elgort

#9. The solution, she advises, is, "when you meet a woman who is intimidatingly witty, stylish, beautiful, and professionally accomplished, befriend her. Surrounding yourself with the best people doesn't make you look worse by comparison. It makes you look better." Marital

Rebecca Traister

#10. We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.

Samantha Power

#11. The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

#12. War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

Smedley Butler

#13. War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

Smedley Butler

#14. Ask and expect an answer.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.

Smedley Butler

#16. Immersed in surrender and gratitude, celestial pearls of wisdom form rosaries of prayer that entangle with my soul.

Earthschool Harmony

#17. Just as it is wrong to work on chess by studying only the first 10-15 moves, so it is wrong to play one and the same opening system, even though it be rich in variations and nuances.

Efim Geller

#18. To summarize: Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket. 1. We must take the profit out of war. 2. We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war. 3. We must limit our military forces to home defense purposes.

Smedley D. Butler

#19. Good communication using WORDS

Eric Sutherland

#20. The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.

Sloan Wilson

#21. The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.

Ernest Hemingway,

#22. There was some rhythm, some ecstasy in this dance of flight that expressed the fact that happiness which touches depths and rises beyond physical confines is as old as consciousness, yet ever renewed, and is like the glorying flight of the birds

Elyne Mitchell

#23. I always write well in New York.

David Bowie

#24. War traumatizes soldier and civilian alike; warfare is a profit-making racket; warfare resolves nothing that negotiations can't resolve better; the weapons we have now make non-violence the only option to planetary annihilation.

Madeline Taylor

#25. More than half of Guatemalans are pureblooded Indians, descendants of the proud Maya-Quiche tribes. In their mist-shrouded villages, the Indians worship the corn god and the rain god, only vaguely concerned with the political entity known as Guatemala.

Stephen Kinzer

#26. If you ask anyone in animation, how long they've been into animation, they'll pretty much always tell you that it's since they can remember, and I'm no exception.

Alex Hirsch

#27. War is just a racket ... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

Smedley Butler

#28. There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.

Terence McKenna

#29. Remove,' I said to myself, 'the impetus to private ownership, and you have made the first giant step toward removing the causes of injustice in the world. There would be no greed if there were no possessions, no jealousy, no envy, perhaps even no hatred.

Don Carpenter