{"quotes":[{"text":"You are wrong,” says the man. His voice is low and resonant. The metal walls of the dome, all the knives and swords and spears, all seem to vibrate with each of his words. “Your rulers and their propaganda have sold you this watered-down conceit of war, of a warrior yoked to the whims of civilization. Yet for all their self-professed civility, your rulers will gladly spend a soldier’s life to better aid their posturing, to keep the cost of a crude good low. They will send the children of others off to die and only think upon it later to grandly and loudly memorialize them, lauding their great sacrifice. Civilization is but the adoption of this cowardly method of murder.","author":"Robert Jackson Bennett","tags":["civilization","conflict","imperialism","jingoism","militarism","murder","nationalism","patriotism","peace","propaganda","soldiering","soldiers","war","warrior"],"id":7843,"author_id":"Robert+Jackson+Bennett"},{"text":"If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war.","author":"Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski","tags":["militarism","pacifism","peace","war"],"id":23164,"author_id":"Jakub+Bo%C5%BCydar+Wi%C5%9Bniewski"},{"text":"When he won, it proved that God was on his side. When he didn't win, it meant that God wanted him to try harder.","author":"P.J. Sullivan","tags":["god","god-and-warriors","gods","gods-will","militarism","propaganda","war-and-peace"],"id":23626,"author_id":"P.J.+Sullivan"},{"text":"War hath no fury like a non-combatant.","author":"Charles Edward Montague","tags":["chickenhawk","hypocrisy","militarism","war"],"id":31044,"author_id":"Charles+Edward+Montague"},{"text":"When we comprehend how few wars have ever been fought for the sake of justice or the people; how personal spite, the ambition of military professionals, and the protection of capitalistic ventures are the real moving powers...Then the mythology of war will no longer bring us to our knees.","author":"Rauschenbusch Walter 1861-1918","tags":["justice","militarism","war"],"id":54884,"author_id":"Rauschenbusch+Walter+1861-1918"},{"text":"It is a pervasive condition of empires that they affect great swathes of the planet without the empire's populace being aware of that impact - indeed without being aware that many of the affected places even exist. How many Americans are are of the continuing socioenvironmental fallout from U.S. Militarism and foreign policy decisions made three or four decades ago in, say, Angola or Laos? How many could even place those nation-states on a map?","author":"Rob Nixon","tags":["activism","america","environment","foreign-policy","inequality","militarism","poverty"],"id":56852,"author_id":"Rob+Nixon"},{"text":"When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead'When you see millions of the mouthless deadAcross your dreams in pale battalions go,Say not soft things as other men have said,That you'll remember. For you need not so.Give them not praise. For, deaf, how should they knowIt is not curses heaped on each gashed head?Nor tears. Their blind eyes see not your tears flow.Nor honour. It is easy to be dead.Say only this, 'They are dead.' Then add thereto,'Yet many a better one has died before.'Then, scanning all the o'ercrowded mass, should youPerceive one face that you loved heretofore,It is a spook. None wears the face you knew.Great death has made all his for evermore.","author":"Charles Hamilton Sorley","tags":["coming-of-age","despair","generational-dysfunction","militarism","poems","world-war-1"],"id":57950,"author_id":"Charles+Hamilton+Sorley"},{"text":"When you live in the United States, with the roar of the free market, the roar of this huge military power, the roar of being at the heart of empire, it's hard to hear the whispering of the rest of the world. And I think many US citizens want to. I don't think that all of them necessarily are co-conspirators in this concept of empire. And those who are not, need to listen to other stories in the world - other voices, other people.","author":"Arundhati Roy","tags":["america","empire","free-market","militarism"],"id":59840,"author_id":"Arundhati+Roy"},{"text":"What does the corpse care who was right and who was wrong?","author":"Manuel Azaña","tags":["militarism","war"],"id":64425,"author_id":"Manuel+Aza%C3%B1a"},{"text":"He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword ... Unless he's a general.","author":"Brian Spellman","tags":["militarism","military","patriotism"],"id":99065,"author_id":"Brian+Spellman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}