Anti War Quotes - Page 5

• 'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  War, Historical, Liberty

  "Law, Legislation and Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Volume 3: "The Political Order of a Free People". Chapter 17: "A Model Constitution", 1973.

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• There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

  Havelock Ellis

  Peace, War, Achieve

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• I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Peace, Hate, War

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• What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

  Simone Weil

  Country, Peace, War

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• What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, War

  Non-Violence in Peace and War (1942) vol. 1, ch. 142

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• I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Peace, War

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.254, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If you hold an anti-war rally, I shall not attend. But if you hold a Pro-Peace rally invite me.

  Mother Teresa

  War, Invites, Ifs

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• We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.

  Martin Luther King III

  Peace, War, Terrorism

  "Our Twisted Politics of Grief" by Norman Solomon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

  George Orwell

  Country, Money, War

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Facing unpleasant facts, 1937-1939”

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• Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

  James Madison

  Inspirational, War, Army

  "Political Observations" by James Madison, founders.archives.gov. April 20, 1795.

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• All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, War, Mean

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• War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Loss

  Letter to John Sinclair, 1798.

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• Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, War, Blood

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

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• Nothing good ever comes of violence.

  Martin Luther

  War, Violence, Total War

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• History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

  Ronald Reagan

  Veterans Day, Money, Peace

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I am the harvest of man's stupidity. I am the fruit of the holocaust. I prayed like you to survive, but look at me now. It is over for us who are dead, but you must struggle, and will carry the memories all your life. People back home will wonder why you can't forget.

  Eugene B. Sledge

  Life, Memories, War

  Eugene B Sledge (2010). “With the Old Breed: The World War Two Pacific Classic”, p.272, Random House

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• If you had a free society you couldn't get people to go to war, if you had an intelligent type of upbringing in ones children. They would say; There must be many other ways of solving problems other then killing people.

  Jacque Fresco

  Children, War, Intelligent

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• Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Invention

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• There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

  A. J. Muste

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967

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• A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Peace, War, Unjust

  Benjamin Franklin (1836). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Ed., and Many Letters Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.483

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• Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, War, Bills

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• A people free to choose will always choose peace.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, People

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

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• The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Home

  Thomas F. Jackson, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2007). “From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice”, p.319, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Insanity, Madness

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• Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Peace, War, Animal Rights

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