Anti war Quotes · Page 3

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.

— Barbara Boxer

The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the…

— Bill Ayers

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

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

— Mark Twain

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

— Norman Cousins

“The friends of Galtieri, Saddam Hussein, Mullah Omar and Milosevic make unconvincing defenders of humanitarian values, and it can be seen that…

— Christopher Hitchens

Tis not, 'my country right or wrong'; tis, 'my country, that which is right to be kept right, that which is wrong…

— Carl Schurz

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

— Eugene V. Debs

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

— Ellen Glasgow

A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.

— Voltairine de Cleyre

I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the…

— David Talbot

Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents...

— Anthony Gregory

Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war…

— Nat Hentoff

Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.

— Albert Einstein

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

May I just single out for salutations, on the "anti-war" side: Pop Stars For Appeasement, Dancers Against Democracy, Actors For Apathy, Fashionistas…

— Julie Burchill

Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.

— Laozi

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

First of all, [St. Stephen's] is a radical church. It was one of the first DC churches to have gay ceremonies. A…

— Ian MacKaye

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both…

— H. L. Mencken

In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.

— Chris Hedges

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total…

— David Dellinger

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

— Ron Paul

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

— Jimmy Carter

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us…

— John Galsworthy