All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'pro' one side or the other in a conflict, — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn't seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in,… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a… — Rodrigue Tremblay Copy Share Image
The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible. — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
We would turn everything into songs in those days...A lot of people think "Alice's Restaurant" was an anti-war song. It's not. — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon was not the lesser evil, he was the greater evil, but in his administration the war was finally brought to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
We've always known that Democrats are anti-war, and we've always known that we can't really count on them when it comes to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn't attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her.… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“During the Year of the Monkey, the press, which had hitherto generally supported the war or stuck to feel-good stories of heroism… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“That war [Bosnian war] in the early 1990s changed a lot for me. I never thought I would see, in Europe, a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“But what I would like to know," says Albert, "is whether there would not have been a war if the Kaiser had… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Nothing fairer than peace is given to man to know; Better one peace than countless triumphs — Silius Italicus Copy Share Image
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice. — Tawakkol Karman Copy Share Image
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned? — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image