Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder. — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with... — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph. — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit. — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts. — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously-and we must stop them before their crimes can… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of… — Edmund Vance Cooke Copy Share Image
Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Antiwar protestors actually sabotaged and caused a huge amount of damage to military installations and military property during the war. I'm related… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
The point of public relations slogans like 'Support our troops' is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people… — Renata Adler 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
We are now in the midst of our first television war ... the television environment [is] total and therefore invisible. Along with… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It was not unless one lifted one's gaze from all the allegedly normal events occurring before one's eyes and looked at the… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
When are we left-wingers going to learn that we are losing the cultural and political battle with conservatives because we are fractured… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image