Antiwar Quotes · Page 6

You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy.

— David Cross

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

War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.

— Lewis Mumford

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

— Pat Buchanan

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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may…

— Dan Simmons

Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the…

— Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only…

— Yochai Benkler

For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the…

— George MacDonald

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

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for…

— Edward Abbey

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

They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have…

— Eugene V. Debs

The truth is that the antiwar movement was powered by the working class. The students were the ones that got the media…

— Bill Ayers

When I began writing poems, it was in the late 60s and early 70s when the literary and cultural atmosphere was very…

— Robert Hass

The responsibility for the risks we posed to others in some of our most extreme actions in those underground years never leaves…

— Bill Ayers

War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is, with an eye to expense…

— Susan Sontag

Many of the points made by the antiwar movement have been consciously assimilated by the Pentagon and its lawyers and advisers. Precision…

— Christopher Hitchens

Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to…

— Sherman Alexie

Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some…

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Louis Simpson

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

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

— Ron Paul

The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

— Luc de Clapiers

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

— Thomas Jefferson

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

— Ramsay MacDonald

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

— Norman Schwarzkopf

In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

— Eduardo Galeano

Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

— Havelock Ellis

War technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism.

— Stan Goff

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

— Anne O'Hare McCormick

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population...

— Jean-Paul Sartre