Best Antiwar Quotes
356 Antiwar quotes by 213 unique authors
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Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.
— George W. Bush
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We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
— George W. Bush
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War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars…
— Smedley Butler
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My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.
— Smedley Butler
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War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
— Smedley Butler
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War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people.…
— Smedley Butler
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The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
— Taylor Caldwell
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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
— Albert Camus
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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives...…
— Albert Camus
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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
— Thomas Carlyle
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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how…
— Jimmy Carter
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We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
— Jimmy Carter
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There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
— Jimmy Carter
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The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?
— Bennett Cerf
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The only defensible war is a war of defense.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
— Noam Chomsky
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To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.
— Noam Chomsky
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When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
— Winston Churchill
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War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
— Winston Churchill
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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
— Ramsey Clark
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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the…
— George Clooney
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War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all…
— Smedley Butler
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