Best Anti War Thoughts
357 Anti War quotes by 222 unique authors
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We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
— Havelock Ellis
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
— Euripides
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I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.
— Marianne Faithfull
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Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
— Oriana Fallaci
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You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.
— Geraldine Ferraro
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
— E. M. Forster
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I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
— Benjamin Harrison
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten…
— Vaclav Havel
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Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
— Ernest Hemingway
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
— Napoleon Hill
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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
— Thomas Hobbes
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It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.
— Herbert Hoover
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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
— Kin Hubbard
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
— Victor Hugo
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