Militarism Quotes

No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.

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

German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.

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

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace.

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.

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

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.