Antiwar Quotes · Page 4

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

— Alexander Pope

Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.

— George Washington

When I began writing poems, it was in the late 60s and early 70s when the literary and cultural atmosphere was very…

— Robert Hass

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to…

— Agatha Christie

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

— John Lindsay

The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed…

— John T. Flynn

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

— Saint Augustine

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

— Hermann Hesse

Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.

— Art Hoppe

I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute...

— Dalai Lama

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of…

— Mark Twain

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

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

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by…

— Thomas Paine

Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.

— Mary Robinson

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

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Anne O'Hare McCormick

“When the war seems inevitable, work more to make it evitable! No man gain honour by making war!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

— Ernie Pyle

When we fill our souls up with creativity, artistry and intelligence ...we have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads…

— Rick DellaRatta

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.

— Samuel B. Pettengill