Antiwar Quotes · Page 11

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

— Noam Chomsky

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

— Norman Schwarzkopf

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

— Noam Chomsky

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Razmišljam i ja ponekad o svom poreklu, naravno, ali pritom ne vidim bogomolje, simbole, ni šarene pantljike folklora kojima se kite konji…

— Đorđe Balašević

[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

If you sacrifice liberty for security, you will lose both.

— Ron Paul

War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— William Cowper

The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is…

— Clarence Darrow

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

— George Bernard Shaw

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be…

— Ludwig von Mises

Freedom is not nurtured by nations preparing for war.

— William Appleman Williams

Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and…

— Anonymous

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

— Horace

Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

— Marquis de Sade

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

George, your reckless and wanton foreign policies killed my son, Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, in the illegal and unjust war on Iraq.…

— Cindy Sheehan

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.

— George Washington

I have learned from first hand experience that war is the destroyer of everything that is good in the world, it turns…

— Kevin Benderman

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

— James Wolcott

In all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the disastrous effects…

— Sun Tzu