Anti war Quotes · Page 6

As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn't true.

— Craig Murray

Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

— Mark Twain

You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.

— Pope Pius XII

“War serves only the warlords and the graveyards!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I never aligned myself specifically with the anti-war movement.

— Katharine Gun

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

— George Orwell

The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement

— Naomi Klein

War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

— Thomas Jefferson

The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one,…

— Dennis Kucinich

The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.

— Andrew Sullivan

Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us?

— Ron Paul

Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon…

— Lillian Wald

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

— George Washington

The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since…

— Douglas MacArthur

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and…

— Andrew Greeley

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

Now you may like the images of long-haired hippies running in the streets throwing tear gas canisters, but we didn't end the…

— Bill Ayers

My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the…

— Joan Halifax

“If [pacifists] imagine that one can somehow "overcome" the German army by lying on one's back, let them go on imagining it,…

— George Orwell

Mum has always been a huge anti-war activist. She would go off to protest and get arrested. I have her passion, but…

— Joan Cusack

Former soldiers will almost always gravitate to the anti-war party. This happens for obvious reasons. The men who have been in battle…

— Rod Lurie

Mother Teresa was brilliant. She said, “I will never attend an anti-war rally. If you have a peace rally, invite me.” She…

— Jack Canfield

Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves. Be true…

— Eugene V. Debs

“We'll fight back, we'll fight back, we'll fight back," a man near Doctor Stockstill was chanting. Stockstill looked at him in astonishment,…

— Philip K. Dick

I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

When I went to college, I majored in anti-war demonstrations, you know? I mean, really!

— Tom Noddy

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

— H. G. Wells

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

— Alexander Pope

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

— Albert Camus

They were terrified that we were going to become an anti-war kind of platform.

— Phil Donahue

I wouldn't say I was part of an anti-war campaign.

— Robert Fisk

“I hope to God there are no wars for him or anyone to fight in after this one.”

— Mark Ellis

War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization

— Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic.

— Justin Raimondo

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

— T. S. Eliot

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.

— Christopher Hitchens

The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.

— Tacitus

Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.

— Ronald Reagan

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

— Mahatma Gandhi