Anti war Quotes · Page 13

“I respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for…

— Christopher Hitchens

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

— Horace

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

— J. G. Ballard

Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

— Marquis de Sade

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Joan Halifax

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

— Katharine Gun

“His was a lonely, unorthodox conviction that war was man's ultimate failure.”

— Sharon Kay Penman

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

— James Wolcott

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

— Albert Camus

In many ways, I have no idea what would have become of me if punk hadn't happened, because the '70s turned out…

— Jello Biafra

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

— Thucydides

One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

— Louis Lecoin

I hate it when they say, �He gave his life for his country.� They don�t die for the honor and glory of…

— Gene La Rocque

Say it isn't true That there always has been and always will be war Say it isn't true And apart from all…

— Jackson Browne

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

— Thucydides

[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived…

— Leo Tolstoy

Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood.

— Pope Francis

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for…

— Hermann Goring

Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean was all smiles, well smirks, after picking up the endorsement of former Vice President Al Gore at…

— Jon Stewart

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.

— Robert Higgs

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

— Herbert Hoover

Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are…

— Walter Cronkite