Anti War Quotes - Page 25

• The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

  J. William Fulbright

  Peace, War, America

  "Fulbright: The Dissenter". Book by Haynes Bonner Johnson and Bernard M. Gwertzman, 1968.

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• The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.

  Norman Thomas

  Philosophy, War, Hate

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• Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

  William Eldridge Odom

  War, Democracy, Parliament

  "The Mythical End to the Politics of Fear" by Norman Solomon, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2006.

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• Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Government, Common Sense

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1951). “The kingdom of God: and peace essays”

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• Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

  Simone Weil

  Peace, War, Struggle

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• One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.

  Stefan Halper

  Peace, War, Keys

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• A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Peace, War, Army

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.98, SUNY Press

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• We have met the enemy and he is us.

  Walt Kelly

  Trust, Peace, Fun

  Poster for Earth Day (1970). Also appeared in the Pogo comic strip for 8 Aug. 1970.

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• Make it plain that you have no time for war, that you have more important things to do....let the diplomats and marshals of the earth shoot each other.

  Wilhelm Reich

  War, Important, Earth

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• Freedom is not nurtured by nations preparing for war.

  William Appleman Williams

  War, Preparing, Nations

  William Appleman Williams, Henry W. Berger (1992). “A William Appleman Williams reader: selections from his major historical writings”, Ivan R Dee

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• The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, War, Yield

  "My Early Life: A Roving Commission". Book by Winston Churchill, 1930.

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• Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, War, Believe

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, War, Believe

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• This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.

  Bertrand Russell

  Ideas, Humanity, Weapons

  Speech in Birmingham, England encouraging civil disobedience in support of nuclear disarmament, April 15, 1961.

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• In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

  Herodotus

  Peace, Father, Military

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• Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but on the whole of good intentions which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made not usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies pursued by good men usually passionately convinced that they are right.

  Norman Angell

  War, Men, Knowing

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. June 12, 1935.

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• The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the individual, "crime".

  Max Stirner

  War, Law, Practice

  Max Stirner (1982). “The Ego and Its Own”, p.197, Rebel Press

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• When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever.

  Augusta Stowe-Gullen

  War, Voice, Forever

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• When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

  Thornton Wilder

  Peace, War, Thinking

  1942 The Skin of Our Teeth, act 1.

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• Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation and maintenance of the power of the national state-that is, the mainstay of all the priveleges of the exploiters throughout the nation.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  War, Passion, Views

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• The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he know he is right, who can defy those in authority over him, who can take punishment and prison and remain steadfast-that is a man of courage. The fellow whom you taunt as a 'slacker' because he refuses to turn murderer-he needs courage. But do you need much courage just to obey orders, to do as you are told and to fall in line with thousands of others to the tune of general approval and the Star Spangled Banner?

  Alexander Berkman

  Country, Stars, War

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

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• Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Peace, War, Hatred

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• The way I'm going now is to focus on peace, to create peace. As Sister Corita said, "I don't go to anti-war rallies. I go to peace rallies."

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  War, Focus, Way

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Government

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

  Mark Twain

  War, Eagles, Land

  Mark Twain (1970). “King Leopold's Soliloquy”, p.8, LeftWord Books

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