Antiwar Quotes

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

— Max Lucado

The power of making war often prevents it.

— Thomas Jefferson

A mind at peace does not engender wars.

— Sophocles

The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?

— Bennett Cerf

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

— Brendan Behan

I think war is a dangerous place.

— George W. Bush

Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction

— George W. Bush

War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement

— James Madison

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

— Voltaire

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

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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

— Art Hoppe

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

— Anthony Gregory

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

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Thomas Paine

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

— Ludwig von Mises

It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions…

— Benjamin Tucker

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe…

— William Faulkner

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just…

— Ernest Hemingway

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their…

— Thomas Jefferson

Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion…

— William Blum

No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own…

— Daniel Webster

Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show…

— Karl Rove

“... it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable…

— Hermann Hesse

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

Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ…

— James Madison

The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people…

— Renata Adler

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools…

— Helen Keller

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world…

— George Washington

In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were…

— George Clooney

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of…

— Mark Twain

The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima…

— Edward Abbey

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

If a country develops an economic system that is based on how to pay for the war, and if the amounts of…

— Marilyn Waring

“Bože moj... Prošao sam kroz Vukovar mnogo puta...(...) Kad sam dolazio sa zapadne strane, iz Italije, sa mora, iz Zagreba ili Ljubljane,…

— Đorđe Balašević

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

— Đorđe Balašević

“As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came…

— Christopher Hitchens

... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one…

— Robert Parry

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

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