Anti war Quotes · Page 9

Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.

— Art Hoppe

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

— Ayn Rand

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

— Thucydides

Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

— William Eldridge Odom

There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international…

— Noam Chomsky

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

— Olive Schreiner

I think if you just made a film that says, 'This is anti-war,' and you had to spend two hours explaining that...…

— Pilou Asbaek

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Here's the thing. Just because you're pro-troops doesn't mean you're pro-war. And just because you're anti-war doesn't mean you're anti-troops. Just because…

— Toby Keith

Richard Nixon was not the lesser evil, he was the greater evil, but in his administration the war was finally brought to…

— Howard Zinn

The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The…

— Hugo Black

Former soldiers will almost always gravitate to the anti-war party. This happens for obvious reasons. The men who have been in battle…

— Rod Lurie

Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves. Be true…

— Eugene V. Debs

Mother Teresa was brilliant. She said, “I will never attend an anti-war rally. If you have a peace rally, invite me.” She…

— Jack Canfield

My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the…

— Joan Halifax

Mum has always been a huge anti-war activist. She would go off to protest and get arrested. I have her passion, but…

— Joan Cusack

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

— Jimmy Carter

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their…

— Thomas Jefferson

...the role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place.

— George W. Bush

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists…

— Chris Hedges

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

— Barry Goldwater

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject...

— William Graham Sumner

Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to…

— Thomas S. Power

The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since…

— Douglas MacArthur

Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.

— Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe Robert Walker

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and…

— Andrew Greeley

War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war…

— Dennis Kucinich

...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.

— Murray Rothbard

Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon…

— Lillian Wald

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

— George Washington

If you hold an anti-war rally, I shall not attend. But if you hold a Pro-Peace rally invite me.

— Mother Teresa

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it…

— Simone Weil

[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a…

— Ludwig von Mises

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.

— Gerard K. O'Neill

Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.

— Fred Reed

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

— Saint Augustine

All left-wing activists, whether it be WTO, anti-WTO, or anti-war, are idealistic as framed by the Democratic Media Complex.

— Andrew Breitbart

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

— Ludwig von Mises

History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.

— Eric Alterman