The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
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.
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
War means fighting, and fighting means killing.
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.