Anti War Quotes - Page 12

• 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 is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization

  Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

  War, Civilization, Filthy

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• I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Believe, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.

  Pope Pius XII

  War, Antiwar, Loses

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• To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, Giving Up, War

  Remarks at White House luncheon,Washington, D.C., 26 June 1954

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• The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Self, Vision

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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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• The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

  Frank Chodorov

  Peace, War, Fighting

  Frank Chodorov (1980). “Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.

  Livy

  Peace, Victory, Harmony

  "The History of Rome".

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• To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Fighting, Brutality

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.399, Princeton University Press

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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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• With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.

  Garet Garrett

  Country, Peace, War

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• History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.

  Eric Alterman

  Military, War, Example

  Eric Alterman (1999). “Sound and Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy”, p.259, Cornell University Press

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• The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

  Garet Garrett

  Peace, War, Blow

  Garet Garrett (1965). “The people's pottage”, Caxton Printers

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• The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  War, Hero, People

  Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law (2006). “Brandeis at 150: the Louisville perspective : a sesquicentennial commemoration”

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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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• Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, Military, War

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Peace, War, Break Out

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

  Colin Powell

  Peace, War, Historical

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• Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

  Russell Baker

  Peace, War, History

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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• Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of insane tyrants who hear voices.

  Rodrigue Tremblay

  War, Tyrants, Voice

  Rodrigue Tremblay, Paul Kurtz (2010). “The Code for Global Ethics: Ten Humanist Principles”

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• War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Peace, War, Civilization

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• Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

  Martin Amis

  Peace, Military, Taken

  Martin Amis (2010). “Einstein's Monsters”, p.14, Random House

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