Anti war Quote by Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

War is a specific product of civilization.

— Lewis Mumford

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

— Anonymous

“Looking back upon millennia of history, it appears clear that no race or culture has monopoly on wartime cruelty. The veneer of civilization seems…

— Iris Chang

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

A civilization built on dualism and war within and between persons, one that puts its most creative minds and its best engineers to sadistic…

— Matthew Fox

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

— Martin Luther

War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.

— Ruth Benedict

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

— Will Durant

War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of…

— Ludwig von Mises

War is the science of destruction.

— John Abbott

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

— Victor Hugo