Anti War Quotes - Page 23

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

  Sophocles

  Peace, War, News

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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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• Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

  Richard Cobden

  Peace, War, Commerce

  Richard Cobden (1854). “Russia and the Eastern Question”, p.33

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• We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.

  Scott Ritter

  War, Fighting, Care

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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 technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism.

  Stan Goff

  Peace, War, Technology

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• Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Peace, War, Sacrifice

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• Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, War, Work

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• This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, Honesty, War

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798”, p.219, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, People

  Letter to William Charles Jarvis, 28 Sept. 1820

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• They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretarry of state”, p.288

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• If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Truth, War, Asking Questions

  Gravity's Rainbow episode 28 (1973)

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• I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

  Thucydides

  Peace, War, Blame

  Thucydides (1974). “History of the Peloponnesian War”, p.345, Penguin UK

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  Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

  Thucydides

  Peace, War, Ambition

  Thucydides (1974). “History of the Peloponnesian War”, p.279, Penguin UK

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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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• This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

  Tom Daschle

  Peace, War, President

  "The Trouble With Senator Tom Daschle". www.foxnews.com. March 20, 2003.

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• That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

  T. S. Eliot

  Peace, War, Names

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

  Francois Truffaut

  War, Film

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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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• Democrats have chosen not to defend the Marine Corps, but to pander to anti-war protesters and Berkeley officials that are actively trying to impede military recruitment.

  Jim DeMint

  Military, War, Marine

  "Reid’s move delayed rap on Berkeley". thehill.com. February 11, 2008.

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• 'Rage' is the word that most often attaches itself to the Tea Party movement, and it's true that, from the outside looking in, their public demonstrations appear to be more enraged than any political events in America since the race riots and anti-war protests of the 1960s.

  Jonathan Raban

  War, Party, Race Riots

  "Sipping with the Tea Party" by Jonathan Raban, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2010.

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