Best Antiwar Words
356 Antiwar quotes by 213 unique authors
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I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every…
— Winston Churchill
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Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.
— Henry Ford
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After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
— Salman Rushdie
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My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain…
— Henry Ford
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With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars against civilians, and…
— Howard Zinn
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Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to…
— Dan Simmons
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It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.
— Don DeLillo
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War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.
— Frank Herbert
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Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.
— George Washington
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I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars.
— Barack Obama
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The power of making war often prevents it.
— Thomas Jefferson
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We are now in the midst of our first television war ... the television environment [is] total and therefore invisible. Along with the computer, it…
— Herman Melville
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A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter…
— Alexander Cockburn
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There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland.
— George W. Bush
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Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being…
— Eugene V. Debs
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Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways.…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics?
— William Blum
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A rational army would run away.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in ourselves,…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.
— William Eldridge Odom
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If you love this land of the free, bring them home, bring them home, Bring them back from overseas.
— Pete Seeger
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The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.
— William Colby
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For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.
— George MacDonald
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The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits
— H. L. Mencken
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A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
— Plato
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