Best Anti War Quotes
357 Anti War quotes by 222 unique authors
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War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
— Smedley Butler
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The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
— Taylor Caldwell
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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
— Albert Camus
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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives...…
— Albert Camus
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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
— Thomas Carlyle
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We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
— Jimmy Carter
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There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
— Jimmy Carter
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The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?
— Bennett Cerf
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A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
— Noam Chomsky
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
— Noam Chomsky
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When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
— Winston Churchill
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War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
— Winston Churchill
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The more laws, the less justice.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The sinews of war are infinite money.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Laws are silent in time of war.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
— Ramsey Clark
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Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy...
— Abraham Lincoln
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
— A J P Taylor
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
— A J P Taylor
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How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
— Albert Einstein
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Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their…
— Thomas Jefferson
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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people,…
— Aristotle
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No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.
— Menachem Begin
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