Anti war Quotes

I was involved in the anti-war movement.

— Bill Ayers

The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.

— Henry Rollins

We have guided missiles and misguided men.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Ken Gillespie

Everything you do in war is a crime in peace

— Helen McCloy

The more laws, the less justice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Industry of war is the industry of shame

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.

— Barbara Boxer

I never aligned myself specifically with the anti-war movement.

— Katharine Gun

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

— George Orwell

“War serves only the warlords and the graveyards!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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

— Mark Twain

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

— Eugene V. Debs

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

— Craig Murray

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

— Pope Pius XII

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

— Brooks Atkinson

We would turn everything into songs in those days...A lot of people think "Alice's Restaurant" was an anti-war song. It's not.

— Arlo Guthrie

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

— Charles Sumner

On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

— Noam Chomsky

A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an…

— Benjamin Franklin

Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very…

— Daisaku Ikeda

The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a…

— Rodrigue Tremblay

The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that…

— Emma Goldman

E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.

— J. G. Ballard

Mum has always been a huge anti-war activist. She would go off to protest and get arrested. I have her passion, but…

— Joan Cusack

“If [pacifists] imagine that one can somehow "overcome" the German army by lying on one's back, let them go on imagining it,…

— George Orwell

My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the…

— Joan Halifax

Mother Teresa was brilliant. She said, “I will never attend an anti-war rally. If you have a peace rally, invite me.” She…

— Jack Canfield

Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves. Be true…

— Eugene V. Debs

Former soldiers will almost always gravitate to the anti-war party. This happens for obvious reasons. The men who have been in battle…

— Rod Lurie

“So if you're anti-war, be pro-peace instead. If you're antihunger, be pro-people having more than enough to eat. If you are anti-a-particular…

— Rhonda Byrne

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than…

— King Hussein I

“Well, I know," she said. "You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the movies by Frank…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are responsible for everything that takes place, the good things and…

— Wilhelm Reich

Carl Armstrong was one of those people in the anti-war years who had been so convinced of the righteousness of their cause…

— Nat Hentoff

“What horrifies me most about war memorials is that no anti-war sentiments are ever displayed. It's as if war is fun or…

— Billy Connolly

“I don't like this war. I don't like the cold-blooded scheming at the beginning and the carnage at the end and the…

— Dorothy Dunnett

I am really interested in who owns ideas of religion. What if I say I'm a libertarian, socialist, Occupy-supporting, anti-war, Christian? Is…

— Robert Montgomery

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Somewhere nearby, artillery thundered. Vast fields — flat as a table, without a single tree — turned any moving figure into an…

— Anonymous