Cost of War
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. This world in
arms is not spending money alone. It is spending
the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its
scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not
a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the
clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross
of iron.
- Dwight Eisenhower, 1953 speech
Cost of War
World Military Spending Chart
I came across that quote by Eisenhower and just did a quick search on the costs of war and thought it was pretty staggering what could be done if war did not exist. It does and that's a fact of life but what could be done if it didn't would be pretty amazing.
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. This world in
arms is not spending money alone. It is spending
the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its
scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not
a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the
clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross
of iron.
- Dwight Eisenhower, 1953 speech
Cost of War
World Military Spending Chart
I came across that quote by Eisenhower and just did a quick search on the costs of war and thought it was pretty staggering what could be done if war did not exist. It does and that's a fact of life but what could be done if it didn't would be pretty amazing.