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If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad
— Smedley Butler
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
— Smedley Butler
Motherhood was not for the weak.
— Lisa Scottoline
My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.
— Smedley Butler
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.
— Smedley Butler
We live someone else's life without trying to understand and become what we are really designed to be
— Sunday Adelaja
Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships ... Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff.
— Rose George
My heart is brokenIt is full of lettuce and celery
~ from "GACELA OF YOUNG LOVE SINGING",
SINGERS AND WINNERS by Lyndon Walker. — Lyndon James Walker
In the World War, we used propaganda to make the boys accept conscription. They were made to feel ashamed if they didn't join the army.
— Smedley D. Butler
No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hand of the person they love.
— Barack Obama
War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.
— Smedley Butler
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
— Smedley Butler
One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians.
— Smedley Butler
I was in this restaurant and I asked for something herby. They gave me a Volkswagen with no driver.
— Tim Vine
Must being in love always mean being in pain?
— Alain De Botton
We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.
— Smedley Butler
Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.
— Smedley Butler
The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.
— Smedley Butler
We must take the profit out of war.
— Smedley Butler
Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country ... but the profits ... skyrocket ...
— Smedley Butler
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
— Smedley Butler
War is just a racket ... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
— Smedley Butler
Politics are not my arena. Music is.
— Aretha Franklin
