Anti War Quotes - Page 11

• Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

  Russell Baker

  Peace, War, History

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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• It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.

  Katherine Paterson

  War, Two, Enemy

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• It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

  John C. Calhoun

  Peace, Freedom, War

  John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 4”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Any forces that would impose their will on other nations will certainly face defeat.

  Vo Nguyen Giap

  Peace, War, Faces

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• Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Self

  A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University

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• The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Growth

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• War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization

  Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

  War, Civilization, Filthy

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• History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.

  Eric Alterman

  Military, War, Example

  Eric Alterman (1999). “Sound and Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy”, p.259, Cornell University Press

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• The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Peace, War, Army

  A J P Taylor (1974). “The First World War: An Illustrated History”, p.15, Penguin UK

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• The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Civilization, World

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• No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Peace, War, Break Out

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• Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, Military, War

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

  A. J. Muste

  War, Thinking, Lessons

  A. J. Muste's statement of 1941, as quoted in Howard Zinn "A People's History" (p. 416), 1980, and later quoted in Howard Zinn "The Twentieth Century: A People's History" (p. 159), May 9, 1984.

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• It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

  Albert J. Nock

  Money, War, States

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• Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Peace, War, Party

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• The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

  George Orwell

  War, 1984 Movie, East Asia

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• I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

  Ellen Glasgow

  War, Littles, Killing

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed.

  Emma Goldman

  War, Army, Peaceful

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.90, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

  Germaine Greer

  War, Faces, Defeat

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• "Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Strong, War, Violence

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

  Dustin Hoffman

  War, Believe, Oil

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• Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized man.

  King Hussein I

  Block, War, Gun

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• The most important thing today is to stop US wars.

  Yuri Kochiyama

  War, Important, Today

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• Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  War, Answers, Carrie

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.184, Northwestern University Press

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• War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Hypocrite, Names

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