Political & Civic LeadershipAs published
“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 D. Eisenhower
U.S. President
About this quote
- Attributed to
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Attribution status
- As published
Photo: Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · source · Portrait: White House (Public domain)
Reflect
What would change if you lived this for one week?
The Sage Challenge
Choose one small action that honours this idea and do it before noon.
Join to journal, save & shareCreate a share imageWatch & listen
Ultimix@6 Dj Kent 06 12 13 A Tribute to Nelson Mandela
Kentaholic RSA·Leaders
Featured in one of the Sage books
Madiba Tribute (Photo Montage of the life of Nelson Mandela)
wartowski·Leaders
Featured in one of the Sage books
Nelson Mandela Tribute: Remembering South Africa's first black president
Onlooker UK·Leaders
Featured in one of the Sage books
More from Dwight D. Eisenhower & related wisdom
Leaders✓ Verified source
“Perhaps a man's character was like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow; the shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
— Abraham Lincoln
As quoted in "Lincoln's Imagination" by Noah Brooks, in Scribner's Monthly (August 1879), p. 586
