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357 Anti War quotes by 222 unique authors

War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity. — Bertrand Russell
We are all victims of war, and we all count. — Marla Ruzicka
Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be… — Anwar Sadat
The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the individual,… — Max Stirner
When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever. — Unknown Author
I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals… — Walt Whitman
When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one. — Thornton Wilder
Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation… — Mikhail Bakunin
The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he… — Alexander Berkman
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis… — Alexander Berkman
Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough… — Ambrose Bierce
In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you… — Randolph Bourne
These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with ignorance, indifference, or… — Stephen Crane
The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is to shoot his… — Clarence Darrow
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be… — John T. Flynn
You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend… — Oliver Goldsmith
The working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are responsible for everything that takes place, the good things and the bad things.… — Wilhelm Reich
Who can sum up all the ills the women of a nation suffer from war? They have all of the misery and none of the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the… — Norman Thomas
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and… — Leo Tolstoy
[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which… — Leo Tolstoy
It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it.… — Benjamin Tucker
The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode… — Simone Weil
We would turn everything into songs in those days...A lot of people think "Alice's Restaurant" was an anti-war song. It's not. — Arlo Guthrie
We've always known that Democrats are anti-war, and we've always known that we can't really count on them when it comes to national defense. But… — Rush Limbaugh

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