Best Anti War Proverbs
357 Anti War quotes by 222 unique authors
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We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We have guided missiles and misguided men.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
— Karl Kraus
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The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
— Robert E. Lee
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
— Abraham Lincoln
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
— Walter Lippmann
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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
— John Locke
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Nothing good ever comes of violence.
— Martin Luther
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Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
— Rosa Luxemburg
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The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
— Robert Wilson Lynd
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not…
— Douglas MacArthur
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
— James Madison
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
— James Madison
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
— James Madison
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from…
— James Madison
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
— James Madison
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
— James Madison
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
— Thomas Mann
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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
— Groucho Marx
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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
— Guy de Maupassant
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I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
— George McGovern
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There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
— Golda Meir
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