Best Antiwar Wisdom
356 Antiwar quotes by 213 unique authors
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
— Euripides
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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
— Edward Everett
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Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
— Oriana Fallaci
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All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
— Francois Fenelon
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
— E. M. Forster
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I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
— Alexander Hamilton
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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
— Benjamin Harrison
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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
— Ernest Hemingway
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Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
— Ernest Hemingway
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
— Napoleon Hill
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The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.
— Christopher Hitchens
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
— Thomas Hobbes
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It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.
— Herbert Hoover
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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
— Kin Hubbard
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
— Victor Hugo
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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
— David Hume
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by…
— Aldous Huxley
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What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
— Aldous Huxley
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Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
— Thomas Jefferson
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