We have become a militarist society (Berry)
June 7th, 2006 | Published in Economics, Politics, Quotes
It is the rule that when one has one’s money invested in a machine, one does not wish to see the machine stand idle; the idleness of the machine means economic ruin. The United States is now investing seventy per cent of its money in a war machine. This means, however reluctant we may be to admit it, that we have become a militarist society; we have a vested interest in war.
–Wendell Berry, “A Statement Against the War in Vietnam” in The Long-Legged House (1969), p. 72