Anti war Quotes

The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?

— Bennett Cerf

War is organized murder, and nothing else.

— Harry Patch

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

— Brendan Behan

“Ban bombs, not books.”

— Abhijit Naskar

After victory, you have more enemies.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In war, truth is the first casualty.

— Anonymous

War is a bankruptcy of policy

— Hans von Seeckt

War creates peace like hate creates love.

— David L. Wilson

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

— Jean-Luc Godard

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

— Geraldine Ferraro

War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.

— Thomas Paine

Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

— Ludwig von Mises

Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.

— Olavo de Carvalho

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

— Albert Einstein

The most important thing today is to stop US wars.

— Yuri Kochiyama

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

— Salvador de Madariaga

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

— Voltaire

Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.

— Art Hoppe

You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their…

— Oliver Goldsmith

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

— Anthony Gregory

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war,

— Kevin Powers

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

— Ludwig von Mises

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe…

— William Faulkner

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

— Jimmy Carter

I hate to be the one to defend George Bush, but you have to be able to disconnect the professional George Bush…

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just…

— Ernest Hemingway

Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that…

— Douglas Rushkoff

At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban…

— Arlo Guthrie

I am an americal soldier Im just a different kind Im the soldier witha tye dye shirt and Flowers in my hair…

— Serena Graves

Does the commandment 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning 'Thou shalt not kill…

— Linus Pauling

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world…

— George Washington

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

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the…

— Clarence Darrow

Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ…

— James Madison

“You might think that the Left could have a regime-change perspective of its own, based on solidarity with its comrades abroad. After…

— Christopher Hitchens

“THE GERMANS AND THE DOG were engaged in a military operation which had an amusingly self-explanatory name, a human enterprise which is…

— Kurt Vonnegut

My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs…

— Rosanne Cash

“If the counsel of the peaceniks had been followed, Kuwait would today be the nineteenth province of Iraq. Bosnia would be a…

— Christopher Hitchens

It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that…

— Benjamin Tucker

People all over the world now are following our election. And according to a new international poll that just came out, I…

— Conan O'Brien