Against War Quotes

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  Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.252, Princeton University Press

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• Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

  George Washington

  Memorial Day, War, 4th Of July

  George Washington (1810). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States”, p.17

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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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• 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.

  Ellen Key

  Teamwork, Peace, Military

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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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• 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.

  James Madison

  Freedom, Real, War

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.49, University of Virginia Press

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• 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.

  George Orwell

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  George Orwell's review of the book "The Men I Killed" by Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier in "New Statesman and Nation", August 28, 1937.

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• 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.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Peace, Growing Up

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.120, 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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• 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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• 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.

  Jon Wynne-Tyson

  War, Animal, Long

  Jon Wynne-Tyson (1972). “The Civilised Alternative: A Pattern for Protest”

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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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• 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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• Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.

  Michael Franti

  War, Today, Music Is

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• 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.

  Michael Franti

  Song, War, Thinking

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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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• 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.

  Mohammad Javad Zarif

  War, Iran, Desire

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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