Top 33 War Profit Quotes
#1. They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.
Jonathan Demme
#2. Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.
Tim Robbins
#3. War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
Ron Paul
#4. Second is the way of the merchant. The wine maker obtains his ingredients and puts them to use to make his living. The way of the merchant is always to live by taking profit.
Miyamoto Musashi
#5. Love is Compassion, Endurance, Equanimity, Impartiality, Magnetic, Patient and Just (and Where Justice Is Not, Hate-Traders Profit)
Elizabeth Lucye Robillard
#6. Racism - if you look closely - is about profit. The whole system was built on it. War - if you look closely - is about profit. Poverty, which is not, and never has been, an accident - if you look closely - is about profit.
Stan Goff
#7. It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is not garrisoned and the profit can be total. This is the law of strategic siege.
Sun Tzu
#8. The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
Richard M. Nixon
#9. War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#10. It is not with earth, though I must till it, I feel at war..but I may not profit of what it bears of beauty,untoiling, Nor gratify my thousands swelling thoughts with knowledge, Nor allay my thousand fears of death and life.
George Gordon Byron
#11. 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
#12. Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour.
Ramsay MacDonald
#13. The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.
Naomi Klein
#14. I believe that all the people who stand to profit by a war and who help provoke it should be shot on the first day it starts by accredited representatives of the loyal citizens of their country who will fight it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#15. I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.
Lily Tomlin
#16. 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
#17. If you took the profit out of war, there would be no war. What the hell do you think war is? You think we go to another country to bring democracy? We go there 'cause there's oil, resources or something we need.
Jacque Fresco
#18. War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
Paul Valery
#19. All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.
Randal Cremer
#20. In my experience, those for whom war is lucrative are rarely satisfied. For them, war is opportunity, not hardship or sorrow. After all, it is rarely their sons who lie in unmarked graves on foreign soil.
C.S. Harris
#21. 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
#22. When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.
Len Deighton
#23. War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
George Orwell
#24. When war makes commerce and commerce is law, profit rules prudence and justice is flawed.
Christopher Moore
#25. In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#26. Show me who makes a profit from war, and I'll show you how to stop the war.
Henry Ford
#27. We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.
William Shakespeare
#28. There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.
Alexander Hamilton
#30. The term railway was to Victorian England what atomic or aerodynamic were to be after World War II, and network and virtual are today. When it came to investments, the romantic appeal of being a party to this technological revolution often dominated profit considerations.
Richard Bookstaber
#31. Once you have opened up prisoner interrogation, wiretapping, border patrol, jailing and the services of the military, when this has been turned into a for-profit business in this endless war, then we're in deep trouble.
John Cusack
#32. Though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?
Pearl S. Buck
#33. War is a racket. The few profit, the many pay.
Noam Chomsky
