Best Antiwar Qoutes
356 Antiwar quotes by 213 unique authors
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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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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an…
— Douglas MacArthur
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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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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
— 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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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which…
— 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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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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The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a…
— George McGovern
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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
— William McKinley
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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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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
— H. L. Mencken
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
— H. L. Mencken
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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and…
— Thomas Merton
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
— Ludwig von Mises
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.
— Ludwig von Mises
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