What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process — Johan Galtung Copy Share Image
This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The friends of Galtieri, Saddam Hussein, Mullah Omar and Milosevic make unconvincing defenders of humanitarian values, and it can be seen that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Once conscription was introduced during the First World War, and once Britain's wars ceased being confined to the empire or to continental… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
Say it isn't true That there always has been and always will be war Say it isn't true And apart from all… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
Now you may like the images of long-haired hippies running in the streets throwing tear gas canisters, but we didn't end the… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes… — Jack London Copy Share Image
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
“My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But what I would like to know," says Albert, "is whether there would not have been a war if the Kaiser had… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
