Antiwar Quotes · Page 6

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Henry A. Kissinger

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

— Thomas Paine

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.

— Abraham Lincoln

Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

— Marquis de Sade

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“War does not only kill men. Sometimes it quietly takes away their future children.”

— Angelika Regossi

People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people.

— Frederic C. Howe

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

— Taylor Caldwell

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

— John F. Kennedy

Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security...

— Alfred Adler

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

— Mark Twain

Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call…

— Thomas Carlyle

And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of…

— Aristotle

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of…

— Edmund Vance Cooke

People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win…This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands…But people who…

— Kenneth Roberts

American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of…

— Colin Ward

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has…

— Robert E. Lee

Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man,…

— Leo Tolstoy

I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight.…

— Smedley Butler

This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The only place you and I disagree is with regard to the bombing. You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I…

— Richard M. Nixon

Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened…

— Gloria Steinem

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

— Ludwig von Mises

I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.

— James Nachtwey

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

— Noam Chomsky

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If you sacrifice liberty for security, you will lose both.

— Ron Paul

A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

— Plato

. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

— Herbert Hoover

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

— Mark Twain

After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.

— Brooks Atkinson

War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.

— Samuel B. Pettengill

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

— Voltaire

No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

— Eugene V. Debs

As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn't true.

— Craig Murray

Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

— Mark Twain

You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.

— Pope Pius XII

War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.

— Harry Elmer Barnes