All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists. — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the… — Scott Ritter Copy Share Image
The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace. — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
When we fill our souls up with creativity, artistry and intelligence ...we have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads… — Rick DellaRatta Copy Share Image
We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen. — Jacobo Timerman Copy Share Image
When I began writing poems, it was in the late 60s and early 70s when the literary and cultural atmosphere was very… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The responsibility for the risks we posed to others in some of our most extreme actions in those underground years never leaves… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The truth is that the antiwar movement was powered by the working class. The students were the ones that got the media… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Like everyone else, I was at least peripherally involved in the antiwar movement. You woke up every morning feeling tormented about what… — Robert Hass 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
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
“As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one… — Robert Parry Copy Share Image
“Razmišljam i ja ponekad o svom poreklu, naravno, ali pritom ne vidim bogomolje, simbole, ni šarene pantljike folklora kojima se kite konji… — Đorđe Balašević Copy Share Image