#militarism

Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#economic #forward #hand #internationalism #isolationism

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea. ↗

— Justin Sane

#always #bad #bad idea #being #idea

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#militarism #victory

Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#blood #crushes #globe #imperialism #like

If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#british #burden #colonists #exist #financial

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. ↗

— Arnold Joseph Toynbee

#militarism #peace #war #art

Men can, of course, be stirred into life by being dressed up in uniforms and made to blare out chants of war. It must be confessed that this is one way for men to break bread with comrades and to find what they are seeking, which is a sense of something universal, of self-fulfillment. But of this bread men die. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#militarism #self-fulfillment #men

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

— Jeannette Rankin

#peace #propaganda #war #propaganda

We should get out of this business of empire. It is untenable. We should get out of the business of interfering in the affairs of other nations. We should get out of those lands before they kick us out. ↗

— Pat Buchanan

#militarism #militarism-war #business

if Germany won it would change the course of our civilization and make the United States a military nation [and] it would check his policy for a better international ethical code ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#militarism #world-war-i #change