Antiwar Quotes · Page 5

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

— Christopher Hitchens

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

— Voltaire

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

— Jean-Luc Godard

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

— Art Hoppe

“When the war seems inevitable, work more to make it evitable! No man gain honour by making war!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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

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

The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or…

— James Madison

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

— Smedley Butler

To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign…

— Alexander Hamilton

Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?

— Alexander Hamilton

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture…

— Shirin Ebadi

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

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

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

— Norman Angell

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

— Leo Tolstoy

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has…

— Robert E. Lee

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

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

Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.

— Olavo de Carvalho

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

— Olive Schreiner

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Jimmy Carter

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

— George W. Bush

If you love this land of the free, bring them home, bring them home, Bring them back from overseas.

— Pete Seeger

I'd like to think that the best bunker buster is a diplomat.

— Scott Ritter

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

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it?

— Lesley Stahl

Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.

— Anonymous

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits

— Anonymous

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

— Kin Hubbard

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

— Hannah Arendt

Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.

— Laozi