Anti war Quote by William Graham Sumner

If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside…

— William Graham Sumner

“It’s good for you to think of this, son. Ponder. Worry. Stay up nights, frightened for the casualties of your ideology. It will do…

— Brandon Sanderson

Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself

— Timothy Keller

When we have communion with God in the doctrine we contend for-then shall we be garrisoned by the grace of God against all the…

— John Owen

War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of…

— William Ellery Channing

“To avoid this state of war (wherein there is no appeal but to heaven, and wherein every the least difference is apt to end,…

— John Locke

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

— Cardinal Richelieu

It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him;…

— Sun Tzu

Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens…

— John Dewey

Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?

— William Shakespeare

Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will…

— Alan Watts

Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.

— William Harvey