The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents... — Anthony Gregory Copy Share Image
In modern political society it is probably a fact that national leadership can heighten foreign crises to the point where war becomes… — Arthur Ekirch Copy Share Image
War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny,… — C. E. M. Joad Copy Share Image
With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
In all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the disastrous effects… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery. — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many. — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
In fact, I was in a lab that was a hundred percent funded by the Pentagon, and it was one of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and… — Hanoi Hannah Copy Share Image
These people are trying to shake the will of the Iraqi citizens, and they want us to leave...I think the world would… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“We're Human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands, but we can stop it. We can admit… — Robert Hamner Copy Share Image
The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn't seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in,… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a… — Rodrigue Tremblay Copy Share Image
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers… — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus Copy Share Image
We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the… — Scott Ritter Copy Share Image
The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists. — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime. — Harry Elmer Barnes Copy Share Image
Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
I have learned from first hand experience that war is the destroyer of everything that is good in the world, it turns… — Kevin Benderman Copy Share Image