#militarism

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world. ↗

— Eugene Victor Debs

#anti-nationalism #compassion #humanity #universal-love #love

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

...overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty. ↗

— George Washington

#military