Antiwar Quotes · Page 8

War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

— H. G. Wells

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

— Albert Camus

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

— Immanuel Kant

You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.

— Pope Pius XII

War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.

— Harry Elmer Barnes

As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn't true.

— Craig Murray

No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

— Eugene V. Debs

There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international…

— Noam Chomsky

“... it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable…

— Hermann Hesse

Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion…

— William Blum

No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own…

— Daniel Webster

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their…

— Thomas Jefferson

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists…

— Chris Hedges

It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors.…

— Stonewall Jackson

Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to…

— Thomas S. Power

Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

— Mark Twain

War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.

— Samuel B. Pettengill

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

— Voltaire

. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

— Herbert Hoover

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

— Mark Twain

After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.

— Brooks Atkinson

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“While people are making wars, you make a calm walk in the wilderness. Stay away from the stupidities!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.

— Salman Rushdie

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

— Benjamin Harrison

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

— Randolph Bourne

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

— Enoch Powell

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

— Otto von Bismarck

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

— John Lindsay

The US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter.

— Kofi Annan

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

— T. S. Eliot

We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic.

— Justin Raimondo

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

— George Washington

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

— Ludwig von Mises

Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.

— Ronald Reagan

Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.

— E. M. Forster

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

— Thucydides

The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.

— Tacitus

Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.

— Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe Robert Walker