Best Antiwar Sayings

356 Antiwar quotes by 213 unique authors

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object — Abraham Lincoln
What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether… — Mahatma Gandhi
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy. — George Washington
The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good. — Luc de Clapiers
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will… — Benjamin Franklin
Throughout the history of the United States , war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central state. It has… — Bruce D. Porter
Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime. — Harry Elmer Barnes
Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause… — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare… — Thomas Paine
... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of U.S. benevolence,… — Unknown Author
A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of those killed were… — Colin Ward
That's not really a number I'm terribly interested in. — Colin Powell
I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it? — Lesley Stahl
I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it. — Madeleine Albright
And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of… — Aristotle
The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away. — Immanuel Kant
Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason… — Jean-Paul Marat
There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part… — Charles Eliot Norton
Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each… — Arundhati Roy
George, your reckless and wanton foreign policies killed my son, Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, in the illegal and unjust war on Iraq. Helping to bring… — Cindy Sheehan
The only place you and I disagree is with regard to the bombing. You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I (in contrast) don't… — Richard M. Nixon
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. — Winston Churchill
I have learned from first hand experience that war is the destroyer of everything that is good in the world, it turns our young into… — Unknown Author

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