Antiwar Quotes · Page 7

It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so…

— Norman Angell

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

— Marcus Aurelius

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

— Christopher Hitchens

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

— Henry A. Kissinger

The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.

— Tacitus

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think war is a dangerous place.

— George W. Bush

Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of insane tyrants…

— Rodrigue Tremblay

I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives…

— Winston Churchill

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

— Immanuel Kant

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists…

— Chris Hedges

Any forces that would impose their will on other nations will certainly face defeat.

— Vo Nguyen Giap

The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a…

— Rodrigue Tremblay

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

— Ludwig von Mises

War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.

— Thomas Paine

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

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

— George Washington

Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.

— Desmond Tutu

We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.

— Jacobo Timerman

There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture…

— Shirin Ebadi

After victory, you have more enemies.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

— Vera Brittain

War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.

— Lewis Mumford

Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in…

— Niccolo Machiavelli