Against War Quotes - Page 2

• I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn.

  Jim Gibbons

  War, Loss, Animal

  "Gibbons speech was plagiarized" by Dave Woodson, elkodaily.com. March 2, 2005.

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• Drons change the way politicians think about war. You already have society's barriers against war dropping, and now you have a technology that takes the barriers to the ground. We can carry it out without having to deal with some of the consequences of sending our sons and daughters into harm's way.

  P. W. Singer

  Daughter, War, Son

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.

  William James

  War, Party, Holiday

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.1281, Library of America

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• O, that we who declare war against wars, and acknowledge our trust to be in God only, may walk in the light, and therein examine our foundation and motives in holding onto money! May we look upon our estates, our treasures, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these, our possessions.

  John Woolman

  War, Light, House

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• It seems to me an utterly futile task to prescribe rules and limitations for the conduct of war. War is not a game; hence one cannot wage war by rules as one would in playing games. Our fight must be against war itself. The masses of people can most effectively fight the institution of war by establishing an organization for the absolute refusal of military service.

  Albert Einstein

  Military, War, Fighting

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.132, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• On each side of the war against war, hopes soar, hopes dive, hour by hour now. Resignations abound, timetables slip, and the world waits, mesmerised. I'm off to Melbourne to record an arts chat show.

  Margo Kingston

  Art, War, Waiting

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• If somebody here in America is against war crime and against stealing lands from Palestinians by Jews, he's already not allowed into Israel.

  Udi Aloni

  War, Israel, Land

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Liberals in blue states just think that when they look in the mirror and say to themselves "I'm for the environment, I'm for the children, I'm for the gay people, I'm against war," it pits automatically, and the oppressor/oppressed leftist mindset that anyone that would disagree with them isn't conservative, they're crazy. They're Nazis, they're facists, they're evil.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Children, Crazy, War

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even if we abolish war, we shall not abolish hate and greed. So might it have been argued about slave emancipation, that slavery was but one aspect of human disgustingness, and that to abolish it would not end the barbarity that causes it. But did the abolitionists therefore waste their breath? And do we waste ours now in protesting against war?

  Rose Macaulay

  Hate, War, Greed

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• I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.

  David Low

  War, Mets

  Quoted in N.Y. Times Magazine, 10 Feb. 1946

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• Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought.

  Helen Keller

  Peace, War, Battle

  Helen Keller's Speech at Carnegie Hall, New York City, under the auspices of the Women's Peace Party and the Labor Forum, January 5, 1916.

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• Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.

  Bernie Sanders

  Military, War, Cutting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have received a commission to make a poster against war. That is a task that makes me happy. Some may say a thousand times that this is not pure art.... but as long as I can work, I want to be effective with my art.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Art, War, Long

  "Letters of Friendship and Acquaintance" [Briefe der Freundschaft und Begegnungen] edited by Hans Kollwitz, p. 95; cited in "Käthe Kollwitz: Woman and Artist" by Martha Kearns, (p. 172), 1976.

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• The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A 'neutral' position is tantamount to support of imperialism.

  Leon Trotsky

  War, Struggle, Support

  Resolution on the Antiwar Congress of the London Bureau, July 1936.

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• The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Men, Problem

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• Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.

  Sigmund Freud

  War, Civilization, Growth

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (1953). “The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

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• To stand up for peace and against war and for disarmament is very courageous here in America.

  Mairead Corrigan

  War, America, Courageous

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• People who stand up against wars aren't necessarily always wrong.

  Pat Buchanan

  War, People, Always Wrong

  "Pat Buchanan On 'America First' Under Trump By EDITOR • JAN 22, 2017". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Loudres Garcia-Navarro, www.npr.org. January 22, 2017.

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• I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  War, Anathema, Connected

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• To be a mother is a great treasure. Mothers, in their unconditional and sacrificial love for their children, are the antidote to individualism; they are the greatest enemies against war.

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Children, War

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• Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is needed, and violence will not really change anything: at most it will only transfer power from one set of bull-headed authorities to another.

  Thomas Merton

  Peace, War, Differences

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• Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.

  Jan Smuts

  Kings, War, Promise

  Jan Christian Smuts (1952). “Jan Christian Smuts: a biography”, William Morrow & Company

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• Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Stupid, May

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.190, Courier Corporation

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• From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

  Richard Cobden

  War, Years, Government

  Richard Cobden (1850). “Speeches on Peace, Financial Reform, Colonial Reform, and Other Subjects: Delivered During 1849”, p.103

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