Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction! — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war... — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“In an age of bombs guzzling blood, skylarks merge peace with thought and action.” — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at… — H. H. Asquith Copy Share Image
Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder… But… — Adin Ballou Copy Share Image
With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I happen to be one of those in the antiwar part of things who actually supported Bill Clinton when he sent the… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
I don't think the American people had a clear picture of either Nixon or me. I think they thought that Nixon was… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred. — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people. — John Taylor of Caroline Copy Share Image
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war. — Leslie Groves Copy Share Image
We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace? — Ramsay MacDonald Copy Share Image
I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another. — Robert M. La Follette, Sr Copy Share Image
I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf. — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image