How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others. — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
The way I'm going now is to focus on peace, to create peace. As Sister Corita said, "I don't go to anti-war… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is… — Elise M. Boulding Copy Share Image
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of insane tyrants… — Rodrigue Tremblay Copy Share Image
Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously-and we must stop them before their crimes can… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit. — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“For real men serve their country with random acts of kindness, not vicious acts of violence. And real soldiers have one duty,… — Joss Sheldon Copy Share Image
“There isn’t a viler creature on earth than a politician who sends the children of others to the war but not his… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security... — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Is it an anti-war book?” “Yes,” I said. “I guess.” “You know what I say to people when I hear they’re writing… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will… — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid, it can't last long." But though a war may be "too stupid,"… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process — Johan Galtung Copy Share Image
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
“They say human is a thinking animal; in times of war, don’t even use the adjective ‘thinking’!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
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