Military Industrial Complex Quotes

119When you bring together the national security state and the military-industrial complex, when you bring together the prison-industrial complex and all the profits that flow from it, when you bring together the corporate media multiplex that don’t want to allow for serious dialogue... and then, when you bring together the Wall Street oligarchs and the corporate plutocrats, and they tell any person or any group, 'If you speak the truth, we’ll shoot you down like a dog and dehumanize you the way we did to dehumanize the brothers in Attica,' the only thing that will keep you going is you better have some love in your heart for the people.

Pointing out the possible, and expensive, entanglements that could come with widespread commercial enterprise, the author calculates the Great Britain was at war half the time between 1689 and 1783.

You know that when ex-military personnel start assassinating their own government's agents that something funky is going on.

Everything took on the color of blood.

Barbara W. Tuchman

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty

If achieving world peace and ending poverty were really genuine concerns to the majority, then they would have happened already by now. So, either people are not aware of their collective power, or their fears overpower their desires. The amount of money spent on the military-industrial complex in one year is more than enough to end hunger in Africa. Every problem on earth today has more than one solution. However, priorities are determined by values.

War is the most profitable business on earth

The ease with which moneyforgives bayonets and liesto justify the massacre with reasoned arguments

Very few people in the USA realize that a nuclear war was waged with nature in the southwest by their own military.