Best Anti War Qoutes
357 Anti War quotes by 222 unique authors
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
— H. L. Mencken
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
— Ludwig von Mises
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.
— Ludwig von Mises
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
— Ludwig von Mises
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If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
— Ludwig von Mises
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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to…
— John Stuart Mill
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For what can war, but endless war, still breed?
— John Milton
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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
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War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
— Ludwig von Mises
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War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
— Ludwig von Mises
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old…
— Viggo Mortensen
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
— Edward R. Murrow
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In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was…
— Yoko Ono
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
— George Orwell
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All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
— George Orwell
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
— George Orwell
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War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
— George Orwell
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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
— George Orwell
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To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of…
— Thomas Paine
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An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
— Thomas Paine
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