Anti war Quotes · Page 6

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

— Albert Einstein

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

— Herodotus

National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.

— John Taylor of Caroline

Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic.

— Ron Paul

Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

— Havelock Ellis

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

— Ellen Glasgow

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

— Marianne Faithfull

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

— Germaine Greer

On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

— Noam Chomsky

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

— Voltaire

I was hitchhiking to Washington to an anti-war demonstration in 1971, and I was in an accident, and that's how I became…

— Simi Linton

“You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing anti-war books? I say 'Why don't you write an anti-glacier…

— Kurt Vonnegut

These people are trying to shake the will of the Iraqi citizens, and they want us to leave...I think the world would…

— George W. Bush

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is…

— Thomas Paine

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

— Mark Twain

. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

— Herbert Hoover

Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out…

— George Orwell

“Your highest patriotism today is to respect the memory of those who have died in the uniform of their country by vowing…

— Willis Carto

[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived…

— Leo Tolstoy

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors.…

— Stonewall Jackson

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no…

— Charles Sumner

Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its…

— Mikhail Bakunin

When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever.

— Augusta Stowe-Gullen

Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood.

— Pope Francis

Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision.

— James Bovard

It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.

— Katherine Paterson

...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population...

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.

— Colin Powell

It is always more valuable to report the truth.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

War technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism.

— Stan Goff

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

— Anne O'Hare McCormick

War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.

— Lewis Mumford

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

— Pat Buchanan

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

— Kin Hubbard

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

— Laozi

You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy.

— David Cross

I am not against all wars-just whichever is current.

— Ken Gillespie