Anti war Quotes · Page 4

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

— Randolph Bourne

I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon…

— Mother Teresa

War creates peace like hate creates love.

— David L. Wilson

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it…

— Simone Weil

I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you…

— John Frederick Maurice

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy...

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— E. M. Forster

War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.

— Bertrand Russell

If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'Pro' one side or the other in a conflict. However, it does make you…

— Eddie Vedder

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

— Ramsay MacDonald

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

“You can walk around this culture now, as a proud supporter of the so called anti-war movement and it's made up of…

— Christopher Hitchens

...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned?

— Bob Dylan

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of…

— Michael Parenti

...the role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place.

— George W. Bush

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

— James Madison

By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process

— Johan Galtung

The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and…

— John Adams

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

— Alexander Pope

Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of…

— Wendell Berry

I see the bomber pictures as an anti-war statement... which they aren't - at all. Pictures like that don't do anything to…

— Gerhard Richter

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to…

— Agatha Christie

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

— John Lindsay

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

— Saint Augustine

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

— Hermann Hesse