Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering.
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.
Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.
The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions.
Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.
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.
Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.
Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music.
Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.
We've never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.
The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
To stand up for peace and against war and for disarmament is very courageous here in America.
People who stand up against wars aren't necessarily always wrong.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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