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For a head of state presiding over a ruined economy, an active army with its low wages is god-sent: All he's got to do is provide it with an objective.

— Joseph Brodsky

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

— Cardinal Richelieu

Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.

— George C. Williams

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

— Ralph Steadman

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

— Jean Anouilh

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

— Sun Tzu

Armies are not only for offensives.

— Bashar al-Assad

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

— Murray Rothbard

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

— J. William Fulbright

✗Opposing Perspectives

There is no God-given right to victory on the battlefield. You win that through the skill and the devotion, the valor and the ferocity of your troops.

— James Mattis

God is building an army all over the place, in Hollywood as well. So it feels good to be a part of it.

— Trai Byers