The sinews of war are infinite money.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev’s willingness to accept Kennedy’s hegemonic demands.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.

Money often costs too much.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

I’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

I come from – I came from Wales, and it’s a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with – life’s too short.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

I’m a cash flow guy. If it doesn’t make me money today, forget about it.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

Money does not change people, people change.