Activism Quote by Tom Lehrer

We don't tend to break into song when we go to war.

— Niki Caro

I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

— Robert Wyatt

Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.

— Michael Franti

We will form an army of poor, where every poor will be a soldier and we will win the war against poverty on behalf…

— Narendra Modi

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

— Robert E. Lee

We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war.…

— Ernest Hemingway

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

— Tommy Franks

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got…

— Elton John

This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be…

— Albert Einstein

People can overcome their differences, and when united, move toward a world of greater fairness and justice. As in folk music, each person has…

— Peter Yarrow

“This is what songs do, even dumb pop songs: they remind us that emotions are not an inconvenient and vaguely embarrassing aspect of the…

— Steve Almond

America's soldiery, like its war dead, comes disproportionately from its southern states and from its aspiring poor - both white and black.

— Linda Colley