Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Zinn

There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.

Howard Zinn

The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its moving parts, its smaller chambers--its classrooms, its workplaces, its corporate boardrooms, its jails, its military barracks--are flagrantly undemocratic, dominated by one commanding person or a tiny elite of power.

Howard Zinn

With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars against civilians, and are therefore inherently immoral. This is true even when a war is considered "just," because it is fought against a tyrant, against an aggressor, to correct a stolen boundary.

Howard Zinn

I believe the American people have the capacity to create a new movement, which would change the direction of our nation from being a military power to being a peaceful nation, using our enormous wealth for human needs, here and abroad.

Guy Gavriel Kay

The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.

Guy de Maupassant

Military men are the scourges of the world.

George Bernard Shaw

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

George Bernard Shaw

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

Fredric Jameson

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

Marc Jacobs

Actually, there are a lot of different small accessories and they can all be sort of assembled on one belt. But (they're) very, very feminine. There's nothing military about them.

The Tigers are reminding Sri Lanka's new president of their military capability. They're telling the president not to be unrealistic in his dealings with them.

The threat is very real. The police and the military are not taking any chances.

The successful shooting of a ballistic missile from underwater was yet another confirmation of the effectiveness of the system of the military administration, and also the reliability of the naval strategic nuclear forces.

This was the worst night of my life. We were really scared. We're getting no help. I know the military police are trying. But they're outnumbered.

Bernie Sanders

I think, clearly, we got to work closely with China to resolve the serious problems we have, and I worry about Putin and his military adventurism in the Crimea and the Ukraine.

Bernie Sanders

Do we substantially increase military spending and prepare for endless war in the middle-east, or do we make college affordable for all Americans, regardless of income. My answer: I will soon be introducing legislation that will make public colleges and universities tuition free.

Bernie Sanders

We are spending hundreds of billions of dollars maintaining 5,000 nuclear weapons. I think we need major reform in the military, making it more cost effective, but also focusing on the real crisis that faces America.

Bernie Sanders

I happen to believe that certain types of assault weapons, which are manufactured and designed for military purposes to kill people very quickly should not be used in civilian society.

Bernie Sanders

I do not believe that we must maintain a bloated military budget which spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined and may lead us to perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

Bernie Sanders

What you don't see on television is people dying today because they can't get to a doctor and they can't afford prescription drugs. That's why they are also dying. They are dying in Iraq because they are poor and they have gone into the military because they can't afford to go to college. They're dying because they're living in communities where asthma rates are extremely high because the air is filthy. The suffering of the poor and working class people is a virtual nonissue for the media. But that is the reality.

Bernie Sanders

No president, not the smartest, best human being in the world can do it alone. You cannot take on this, the power that is in Washington, to billionaires and lobbyist, the military industrial complex, all of this money and power, you can`t do it. You need a mass movement of American who are looking in congress and we say directly.

With respect to stories that I have seen that try to characterize military planning with respect to Iran, I would characterize as wild speculation.

Sandy Berger

We were poised to take military action, and we remain poised to take military action,

The military targets ... have been successfully hit,

The military guys, they can just sit up and sleep. It's amazing.

Pervez Musharraf

The military campaign, as much as possible, should be short and targeted.

The Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers program and a variation of the Thrift Savings Plan, the Military Savings Plan, being opened up to active-duty military personnel were the result of AFAP initiatives.

Boris Yeltsin

I'm doing everything possible to put an end to military actions,

There may well be a time for military action,

This is very serious, whether they were military or not, because someone should have detected them.

Lawrence Wilkerson

If you are a military man, you know that you just don't do these sorts of things, ... they have to do what they have to do to get it.

Buzz Aldrin

Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background.

Buzz Aldrin

I really hate to be put in the position of trying to justify something, a decision that was made. I'm a military guy: when a decision is made, I go along with it, whatever the manufactured controversy and criticism.