Anti war Quotes · Page 7

The world is starving for American leadership. But America has an anti-war president.

— John Boehner

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

— Ludwig von Mises

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

— Benjamin Harrison

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

In times of war, don't touch the guns; stay as a human! Always refuse to be a killer!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

— Edward Abbey

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

— John Lindsay

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

— Enoch Powell

...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.

— Murray Rothbard

War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war…

— Dennis Kucinich

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject...

— William Graham Sumner

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

— Barry Goldwater

Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to…

— Thomas S. Power

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists…

— Chris Hedges

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

— Saint Augustine

Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.

— Fred Reed

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big…

— Bob Dylan

All my life i've been waiting for, i've been praying for, all the people to say, that we don't want to fight…

— Matisyahu

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad…

— Benjamin Franklin

“So if you're anti-war, be pro-peace instead. If you're antihunger, be pro-people having more than enough to eat. If you are anti-a-particular…

— Rhonda Byrne

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than…

— King Hussein I

We were all anti-Reagan, we were all politically-aware, we were all anti-war and things like that. These days a lot of the…

— Roger Miret

I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no -…

— Walt Whitman

Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention…

— Aristotle

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

— Randolph Bourne

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

— Otto von Bismarck

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It is always more valuable to report the truth.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Anne O'Hare McCormick

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

— Stan Goff

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

— Katherine Paterson

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

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

— Colin Powell

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Augusta Stowe-Gullen

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

— Germaine Greer

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

— Marianne Faithfull

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

— Ellen Glasgow

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

— Havelock Ellis