Quotes on Military Spending

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even if 1 per cent of it were redirected towards development, the world would be much closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.