Anti War Quotes - Page 11

• I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.

  Colin Powell

  Peace, War, Historical

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Peace, War, Break Out

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• I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

  Joseph Heller

  Peace, War, Government

  1961 Milo Minderbinder. Catch-22, ch.24.

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

  Yuri Kochiyama

  War, Important, Today

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

  Max Lerner

  War, Way, Energy

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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 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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• 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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• To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Mind, Ordinary

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.165, Broadway Books

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• Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.

  John T. Flynn

  Peace, War, Government

  John Thomas Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”, p.213, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Peace, War, Home

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• We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?

  Ramsay MacDonald

  Peace, War, Taken

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• Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

  Karl Hess

  Peace, War, Apology

  "Why Americans Hate Politics" by E.J. Dionne, Jr., Simon & Schuster, (p. 267), 2004.

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• War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

  Charles Sumner

  Crush, War, Men

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• It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

  H. G. Wells

  Peace, War, Men

  "The Salvaging of Civilization".

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• There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Peace, War, United States

  Noam Chomsky (2002). “Pirates and Emperors, Old and New: International Terrorism in the Real World”, p.122, South End Press

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