Anti War Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Freedom, War, Patriotic

  "Ladies' Home Journal" Magazine, May 1958.

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• A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.

  Daniel Webster

  Military, War, Men

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• Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.

  Georges Sorel

  Country, Peace, Hate

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• Wars should be over in three days or less...and the American people must be all for it from the outset.

  Evan Thomas

  Peace, War, People

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• People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

  Stonewall Jackson

  War, People, Events

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• War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.

  Harry Elmer Barnes

  Peace, War, Problem

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• In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Suicide, War, Loss

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• I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Believe, Effort

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• For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

  Ernie Pyle

  Peace, War, Black

  ERNIE PYLE (1944). “BRAVE MEN”

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• No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Peace, War, People

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens.

  Charles Tilly

  Money, War, Mean

  Charles Tilly, Arthur L. Stinchcombe (1997). “Roads from Past to Future”, p.149, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.

  Alfred Adler

  Peace, War, Boys

  Alfred Adler (2002). “The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler: Journal articles : 1914-1920”, p.149, Alfred Adler Institute

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• Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.

  Alfred Adler

  Peace, War, Honor

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• There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

  George Holyoake

  Truth, War, Practice

  George Jacob Holyoake (1850). “The History of the Last Trial by Jury for Atheism in England: A Fragment of Autobiography, Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney General and the British Clergy”, p.37

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• Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves. Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Truth, Worry, Earth

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

  Alexander Berkman

  Peace, War, Spirit

  Alexander Berkman (2010). “Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

  Alexander Berkman

  Peace, War, Stupid

  Alexander Berkman (2010). “Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Truth, Philosophy

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.163, Best Books on

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• I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

  Philip Caputo

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.

  Jose Narosky

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Peace

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