Antiwar Quotes - Page 2

• I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

  Edmund Burke

  War, Long, People

  Edmund Burke (1855). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Charge against Warren Hastings concluded”, p.189

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• Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

  Marcus Aurelius

  War, Philosophical, Future

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• The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

  David Friedman

  Funny, Peace, Children

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• Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

  Ron Paul

  Peace, War, I Hate You

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• If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

  Pat Buchanan

  Peace, War, Empires

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• Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Peace

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Money, Peace

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• The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

  Hermann Goring

  Country, Peace, Freedom

  Quoted in Gustave M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947).

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• You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Peace, Military, War

  Quoted in Hannah Josephson, Jeannette Rankin: First Lady in Congress (1974)

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• Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Mean

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Veterans Day, Peace

  Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.158, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

  Edward Abbey

  Peace, Real, War

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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  True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

  Clarence Darrow

  Memorial Day, Peace, Hate

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• May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Military

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.524, Best Books on

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• The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

  James Madison

  Freedom, War, Mean

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• Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Lying

  Nobel lecture as quoted in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, 1974.

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• The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Military, War

  "John F. Kennedy: 1961 : containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the president, January 20 to December 31, 1961" by John F. Kennedy, Washington: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1962.

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• It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

  Alfred Adler

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Courage

  In Phyllis Bottome Alfred Adler (1939) p. 76

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• Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe.

  Arundhati Roy

  Powerful, War, Fighting

  Arundhati Roy (2004). “Public Power in the Age of Empire”, p.39, Seven Stories Press

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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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• We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

  Albert Camus

  Peace, War, Realizing

  Albert Camus (1963). “Notebooks”

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• To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

  Alfred Adler

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Alfred Adler (2005). “The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler: Journal articles : 1931-1937”, p.128, Alfred Adler Institute

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• A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Men, Spirit

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786”, p.400, Cosimo, Inc.

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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 is the Health of the State.

  Randolph Bourne

  War, Liberty, Libertarian

  Randolph Silliman Bourne (1992). “The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918”, p.382, Univ of California Press

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