Anti War Quotes - Page 22

• Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Peace, War, Passion

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• Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

  Vera Brittain

  War, Modern, Civilisation

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• If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'pro' one side or the other in a conflict.

  Eddie Vedder

  War, Mean, Sides

  "Eddie Vedder Plays 'Imagine' at Concert, Reinforces Anti-War Stance" by Kory Grow, www.rollingstone.com. July 21, 2014.

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• People all over the world now are following our election. And according to a new international poll that just came out, I think this came out a few hours ago, this is true, people in Canada want Barack Obama to be the next U.S. president. That's what they're saying. In Canada, yeah. That makes sense, because Obama has the support of Canada's anti-war voters, as well as Canada's black guy. He is very excited.

  Conan O'Brien

  War, Thinking, People

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• War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

  Karl Kraus

  War, Fighting, Winning

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.153, Syracuse University Press

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• What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Believe, Glaciers

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.144, Infobase Publishing

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• Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mean, Doe, Happens

  "Realism in Darfur" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. November 7, 2005.

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• Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pride, Racism, Teeth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Fighting, Essence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.345, Grove Press

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• War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Norman Cousins (1963). “The New Realities The First Richard Joshua Reynolds Lecture at Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia, Nov. 19, 1963”

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• Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts.

  Clarence Darrow

  Peace, Attitude, Men

  Clarence Darrow, S. T. Joshi (2005). “Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society”, p.89, Ohio University Press

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• Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

  David Dellinger

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

  Marquis de Sade

  Peace, War, Principles

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• Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

  Marquis de Sade

  Peace, War, Technique

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• The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not.

  Alain Enthoven

  Peace, Weapons, Matter

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• The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilize savage and senile and paranoidal peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells or metal mines.

  John T. Flynn

  Peace, Moving, Destiny

  John T. Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”

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• Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

  W. L. George

  Peace, Hate, Military

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• We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

  Plato

  Peace, War, Heart

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• It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

  Sophocles

  Peace, War, News

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• Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.

  Fred Reed

  Peace, Children, War

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• Nothing fairer than peace is given to man to know; Better one peace than countless triumphs

  Silius Italicus

  War, Men, Triumph

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• There's no such thing as an anti-war film.

  Francois Truffaut

  War, Film

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• We've always known that Democrats are anti-war, and we've always known that we can't really count on them when it comes to national defense. But we have finally seen with whom they will go to war: the American people who disagree with them.

  Rush Limbaugh

  War, People, Defense

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• It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.

  Thucydides

  Peace, War, Men

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