Antiwar Quotes · Page 7

War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

— Thomas Jefferson

I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

— Frank Herbert

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

— Immanuel Kant

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

— H. G. Wells

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

— Albert Camus

We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic.

— Justin Raimondo

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

— T. S. Eliot

“I am sorry for those who have never had the experience of seeing the victory of a national liberation movement, and I…

— Christopher Hitchens

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

— Ernie Pyle

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to…

— Simone Weil

I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the…

— Mark Boal

“So this general with the background in intelligence who is supposed to conquer Afghanistan can't even figure out what Rolling Stone is?…

— Maureen Dowd

Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously-and we must stop them before their crimes can…

— George W. Bush

Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of insane tyrants…

— Rodrigue Tremblay

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

— Smedley Butler

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the…

— Smedley Butler

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and…

— Eugene V. Debs

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

Throughout the history of the United States , war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central…

— Bruce D. Porter

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

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

— Thucydides

Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.

— E. M. Forster

The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.

— Tacitus

Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.

— Ronald Reagan

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

— Ludwig von Mises

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

— George Washington

After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.

— Salman Rushdie

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

— Benjamin Harrison

“While people are making wars, you make a calm walk in the wilderness. Stay away from the stupidities!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter.

— Kofi Annan

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

— John Lindsay

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

— Enoch Powell

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

— Randolph Bourne

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

— Otto von Bismarck

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

— Anne O'Hare McCormick

War technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism.

— Stan Goff