Antiwar Quotes · Page 4

The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?

— Bennett Cerf

A rational army would run away.

— Baron de Montesquieu

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

— Maximilien Robespierre

After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.

— Jeanette Winterson

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

— Bertrand Russell

One more such victory and we are undone.

— Pyrrhus of Epirus

A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.

— Voltairine de Cleyre

It is always more valuable to report the truth.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.

— Mary Robinson

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

— Vera Brittain

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

— Ludwig von Mises

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

— George Bernard Shaw

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

— George Holyoake

Any forces that would impose their will on other nations will certainly face defeat.

— Vo Nguyen Giap

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.

— Louis Simpson

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to…

— Frank Herbert

Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call…

— Thomas Carlyle

And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of…

— Aristotle

I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of…

— Edmund Vance Cooke

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

— Taylor Caldwell

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

— John F. Kennedy

Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security...

— Alfred Adler

Throughout the history of the United States , war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central…

— Bruce D. Porter

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

Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win…This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands…But people who…

— Kenneth Roberts

American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of…

— Colin Ward

It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so…

— Norman Angell

There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man,…

— Leo Tolstoy

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.

— Barbara Boxer

I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.

— Colin Powell

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

— Edward Abbey

War is the only game in which both sides lose.

— Walter Scott

We have guided missiles and misguided men.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.

— Ken Gillespie

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

— Alexander Pope

Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us?

— Ron Paul