Antiwar Quotes · Page 5

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

— George W. Bush

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

— Henry Ford

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

— Frank Herbert

It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.

— Don DeLillo

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

— William Cowper

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

— Ludwig von Mises

“In an age of bombs guzzling blood, skylarks merge peace with thought and action.”

— Aberjhani

These people are trying to shake the will of the Iraqi citizens, and they want us to leave...I think the world would…

— George W. Bush

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and…

— Hanoi Hannah

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father…

— Ludwig von Mises

Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents...

— Anthony Gregory

In modern political society it is probably a fact that national leadership can heighten foreign crises to the point where war becomes…

— Arthur Ekirch

The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million…

— George Monbiot

Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such…

— Albert Einstein

I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that…

— Ronald Reagan

This fight has nothing to do with soldierly gallantry or principles of the Geneva Convention. If the fight against the partisans is…

— Wilhelm Keitel

War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Edward Abbey

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

— George Clooney

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

— George Washington

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

— Mark Twain

I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.

— Glenn Reynolds

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another.

— Robert M. La Follette, Sr

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

— John F. Kennedy

I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

— Winston Churchill

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?

— Ramsay MacDonald

People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war.

— Leslie Groves

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

— Marcus Aurelius

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.

— J. William Fulbright

National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.

— John Taylor of Caroline

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

— Daniel Berrigan

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic.

— Ron Paul

Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

— Havelock Ellis

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

— Norman Schwarzkopf

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

— Ramsay MacDonald