Antiwar Quotes · Page 8

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

— Baron de Montesquieu

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

— Aberjhani

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

— Ludwig von Mises

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

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

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

— Leslie Groves

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty,…

— Thomas Jefferson

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

— Ludwig von Mises

Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture…

— Shirin Ebadi

To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign…

— Alexander Hamilton

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?

— Alexander Hamilton

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Taylor Caldwell

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

— Ron Paul

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Ramsay MacDonald

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

— Winston Churchill

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

— Thomas Jefferson

The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

— Luc de Clapiers

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

— Havelock Ellis

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

— Ramsay MacDonald

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

— Norman Schwarzkopf

In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

— Eduardo Galeano

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Stan Goff

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

— Anne O'Hare McCormick

Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision.

— James Bovard

Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!

— Helen Keller

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war...

— Pope John Paul II

...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population...

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Alfred Adler