When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring… — Plato Copy Share Image
Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with... — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder. — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a… — Rodrigue Tremblay Copy Share Image
The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn't seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in,… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
“We're Human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands, but we can stop it. We can admit… — Robert Hamner Copy Share Image
Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
In fact, I was in a lab that was a hundred percent funded by the Pentagon, and it was one of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When we fill our souls up with creativity, artistry and intelligence ...we have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads… — Rick DellaRatta Copy Share Image
Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to… — Robert M. La Follette, Sr Copy Share Image
I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute... — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen. — Jacobo Timerman Copy Share Image
War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace. — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the… — Scott Ritter Copy Share Image
Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists. — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image