Anti war Quotes · Page 4

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

— Louis Lecoin

[War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

— John F. Kennedy

It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.

— Jean Plaidy

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

— Peter Ustinov

As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.

— Omar N. Bradley

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

— Vera Brittain

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

— George McGovern

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

— Horace

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

— John Galsworthy

In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

— U Thant

I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send…

— George H. W. Bush

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

— Leo Tolstoy

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

— George Holyoake

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

— Dalai Lama

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

— Albert Einstein

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove…

— Pope John Paul II

If you had a free society you couldn't get people to go to war, if you had an intelligent type of upbringing…

— Jacque Fresco

A word about blue jeans, which, when I was growing up, were called dungarees, one of the more unfortunate marketing ideas of…

— Roger Stone

I'm a child of the '60s, I came of age then. I went to a couple of demonstrations, and then in the…

— Simi Linton

I felt then, as I feel now, that the politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and…

— Harry Patch

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

I had begun what I thought might be a career in social work. I was married and deeply involved in the anti-war…

— John Dufresne

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

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Walter Cronkite

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not…

— Alexander Berkman

“Well, I know," she said. "You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the movies by Frank…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are responsible for everything that takes place, the good things and…

— Wilhelm Reich

“I don't like this war. I don't like the cold-blooded scheming at the beginning and the carnage at the end and the…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“What horrifies me most about war memorials is that no anti-war sentiments are ever displayed. It's as if war is fun or…

— Billy Connolly

Carl Armstrong was one of those people in the anti-war years who had been so convinced of the righteousness of their cause…

— Nat Hentoff

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and…

— Leo Tolstoy

I am really interested in who owns ideas of religion. What if I say I'm a libertarian, socialist, Occupy-supporting, anti-war, Christian? Is…

— Robert Montgomery

Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.

— A. Philip Randolph

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Freedom is not nurtured by nations preparing for war.

— William Appleman Williams

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

— Albert Einstein

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

— Thomas Paine

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

— Albert Einstein

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

— Aesop

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.

— Abraham Lincoln