Best Anti War Sayings
357 Anti War quotes by 222 unique authors
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It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.
— Jean Plaidy
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I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
— Albert Einstein
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My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.
— Albert Einstein
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Nothing will end war unless the people refuse to go to war.
— Albert Einstein
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I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
— Ellen Glasgow
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The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful…
— Emma Goldman
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War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.
— Germaine Greer
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"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and…
— Sydney J. Harris
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I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money,…
— Dustin Hoffman
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Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden…
— King Hussein I
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The most important thing today is to stop US wars.
— Yuri Kochiyama
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Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.
— Kathe Kollwitz
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War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.
— Dennis Kucinich
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The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected.
— Dennis Kucinich
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The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.
— Max Lerner
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The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Everything you do in war is a crime in peace
— Unknown Author
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The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him…
— A J Muste
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War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization
— Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
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It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.
— Katherine Paterson
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Does the commandment 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning 'Thou shalt not kill except on the…
— Linus Pauling
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No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.
— Pope Paul VI
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Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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