Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it. — Anne O'Hare McCormick Copy Share Image
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population... — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood. — Pope Francis 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
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
The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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
A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid, it can't last long." But though a war may be "too stupid,"… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“During the Year of the Monkey, the press, which had hitherto generally supported the war or stuck to feel-good stories of heroism… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn't attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her.… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Your highest patriotism today is to respect the memory of those who have died in the uniform of their country by vowing… — Willis Carto Copy Share Image
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people. — John Taylor of Caroline Copy Share Image
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned? — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
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