Antiwar Quotes · Page 5

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

— Saint Augustine

Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.

— Fred Reed

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

— Pat Buchanan

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

— Lewis Mumford

Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.

— Gerard K. O'Neill

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

— Hannah Arendt

You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy.

— David Cross

Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.

— Laozi

...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.

— Murray Rothbard

Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to…

— Thomas S. Power

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

— Chris Hedges

It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors.…

— Stonewall Jackson

[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a…

— Ludwig von Mises

“I always thought everyone was against war until I found out there are those who are all for it, especially those who…

— Erich Maria Remarque

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it…

— Simone Weil

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to…

— Frank Herbert

War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation…

— Randolph Bourne

I don't think the American people had a clear picture of either Nixon or me. I think they thought that Nixon was…

— George McGovern

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

With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars…

— Howard Zinn

How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder… But…

— Adin Ballou

I happen to be one of those in the antiwar part of things who actually supported Bill Clinton when he sent the…

— Robert Scheer

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

— Norman Angell

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

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.

— Anonymous

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits

— Anonymous

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

— Kin Hubbard

There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland.

— George W. Bush

War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.

— George W. Bush

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

— Ludwig von Mises

We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.

— Martin Luther King III

I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.

— Madeleine Albright

If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.

— James Nachtwey

The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.

— William Colby

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

— Mary Robinson

Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.

— James Wolcott

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

— Vera Brittain

It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick.

— Noam Chomsky