Best Antiwar Quotes

356 Antiwar quotes by 213 unique authors

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction. — George W. Bush
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. — George W. Bush
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
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
War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. — Smedley Butler
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
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall. — Taylor Caldwell
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. — Albert Camus
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
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. — Thomas Carlyle
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
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. — Jimmy Carter
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat. — Jimmy Carter
The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we? — Bennett Cerf
The only defensible war is a war of defense. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it. — Noam Chomsky
To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public. — Noam Chomsky
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. — Winston Churchill
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. — Winston Churchill
The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy. — Ramsey Clark
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means. — Carl von Clausewitz
Politics is the womb in which war develops. — Carl von Clausewitz
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
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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