An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer. — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people. — Frederic C. Howe Copy Share Image
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or… — James Madison Copy Share Image
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“Udžbenik "Geografija za nepismene" izlazi dnevno, kao novine, Narod mora biti u toku šta mu je od jutros Domovina, a šta više… — Đorđe Balašević Copy Share Image
War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If a country develops an economic system that is based on how to pay for the war, and if the amounts of… — Marilyn Waring Copy Share Image
“Bože moj... Prošao sam kroz Vukovar mnogo puta...(...) Kad sam dolazio sa zapadne strane, iz Italije, sa mora, iz Zagreba ili Ljubljane,… — Đorđe Balašević Copy Share Image
Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[T]he Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You… — John Ehrlichman Copy Share Image