Anti war Quotes · Page 7

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

— Tawakkol Karman

“Ceasefire postpones war, disarmament instills peace.”

— Abhijit Naskar

One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.

— Maximilien Robespierre

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'pro' one side or the other in a conflict,

— Eddie Vedder

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

— John F. Kennedy

Nothing fairer than peace is given to man to know; Better one peace than countless triumphs

— Silius Italicus

I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of…

— Jane Addams

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

— Ron Paul

Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.

— Anonymous

I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you…

— John Frederick Maurice

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

— Leo Tolstoy

I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send…

— George H. W. Bush

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us…

— John Galsworthy

Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out…

— George Orwell

It is not just the vulgar, premature bawdiness of pro-war triumphalists which I find revolting. It is that they accuse anti-war people…

— Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will…

— Pope John Paul II

I say openly that I am an anti-war person, with the point being, show me some reason not to be against this…

— Seymour Hersh

My parents were active in the anti-war movement in the 1960s, so I grew up with a tradition of civic activism around…

— Jared Polis

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for…

— Hermann Goring

As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn…

— Hamza Yusuf

I see the bomber pictures as an anti-war statement... which they aren't - at all. Pictures like that don't do anything to…

— Gerhard Richter

When I went to college, I majored in anti-war demonstrations, you know? I mean, really!

— Tom Noddy

The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement

— Naomi Klein

War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

— Thomas Jefferson

I wouldn't say I was part of an anti-war campaign.

— Robert Fisk

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

— H. G. Wells

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

— Albert Camus

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

— Alexander Pope

They were terrified that we were going to become an anti-war kind of platform.

— Phil Donahue

You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.

— Pope Pius XII

As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn't true.

— Craig Murray

No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

— Eugene V. Debs

Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

— Mark Twain

I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.

— Al Sharpton

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

War is the only game in which both sides lose.

— Walter Scott

War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.

— Samuel B. Pettengill