Best Antiwar Thoughts
356 Antiwar quotes by 213 unique authors
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War remains the decisive human failure.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.
— Jim Garrison
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You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.
— Barry Goldwater
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Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.
— Daniel Goleman
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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the…
— Norman Cousins
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
— Clarence Darrow
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
— William O. Douglas
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The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
— Frederick Douglass
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The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism…
— John Foster Dulles
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Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
— Bob Dylan
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
— Abba Eban
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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
— Albert Einstein
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It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
— Albert Einstein
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Force always attracts men of low morality.
— Albert Einstein
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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
— Albert Einstein
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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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