Anti war Quotes · Page 8

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

— Herodotus

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

— Albert Einstein

...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned?

— Bob Dylan

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

— Marcus Aurelius

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.

— J. William Fulbright

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

— Ron Paul

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

— John Taylor of Caroline

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

— John F. Kennedy

All left-wing activists, whether it be WTO, anti-WTO, or anti-war, are idealistic as framed by the Democratic Media Complex.

— Andrew Breitbart

Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.

— Gerard K. O'Neill

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a…

— Ludwig von Mises

If you hold an anti-war rally, I shall not attend. But if you hold a Pro-Peace rally invite me.

— Mother Teresa

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it…

— Simone Weil

Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.

— George W. Bush

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to…

— Frank Herbert

Who can sum up all the ills the women of a nation suffer from war? They have all of the misery and…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars,…

— Ron Paul

“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

[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

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

— Willis Carto

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

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

Nothing fairer than peace is given to man to know; Better one peace than countless triumphs

— Silius Italicus

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'pro' one side or the other in a conflict,

— Eddie Vedder

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

— Tawakkol Karman

One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.

— Maximilien Robespierre

“Ceasefire postpones war, disarmament instills peace.”

— Abhijit Naskar

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

— William Cowper

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

— Frank Herbert

War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.

— Bertrand Russell

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.

— Voltairine de Cleyre

Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.

— Imran Khan

After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.

— Jeanette Winterson

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

— Bertrand Russell

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.

— William Shakespeare