Anti War Quotes - Page 26

• Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Respect, Peace, Freedom

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• Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

  Gregory Bateson

  Peace, War, Moving

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• Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

  Hannah Arendt

  Peace, War, People

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• War is a bankruptcy of policy

  Hans von Seeckt

  War, Policy, Bankruptcy

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• The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Responsibility, World

  Harry S. Truman, Howard B. Furer, United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman) (1970). “Harry S. Truman, 1884- : chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

  Havelock Ellis

  Suicide, Peace, War

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• Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

  Helen Keller

  Peace, War, Hero

  Helen Keller's Speech at Carnegie Hall, New York City, under the auspices of the Women's Peace Party and the Labor Forum, January 5, 1916.

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• Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

  Henri Barbusse

  Suicide, War, Fighting

  "Under Fire". Book by Henri Barbusse, 1916.

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• What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Peace, War, Intelligence Services

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• A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Peace, War, Civilized Nations

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• When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

  H. L. Mencken

  Peace, War, Limits

  "The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations" edited by Antony Jay, 1996.

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• Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

  Horace

  Peace, War, Fall

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• It is not only the living who are killed in war.

  Isaac Asimov

  Veterans Day, Peace, War

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• We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.

  Jacobo Timerman

  Peace, War, Madmen

  Jacobo Timerman (1982). “The longest war: Israel in Lebanon”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision.

  James Bovard

  Peace, War, President

  James Bovard (2015). “Attention Deficit Democracy”, p.8, Macmillan

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• Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

  James Bryce

  Country, Peace, War

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• War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement

  James Madison

  War, Nurse, President

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.452

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• The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it.

  James Madison

  Peace, War, Government

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.43, University of Virginia Press

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• After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Peace, War, Enemy

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• Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Peace, War, Men

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• It is always more valuable to report the truth.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Peace, War, Valuable

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• One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

  Louis Lecoin

  Peace, War, Doe

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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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• If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'Pro' one side or the other in a conflict. However, it does make you 'Pro' many thingsPro-Peace, Pro-Human, Pro-Evolution, it makes you Pro-Communication, Pro-Diplomacy, Pro-Love, Pro-Understanding, Pro-Forgiveness.

  Eddie Vedder

  War, Communication, Mean

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

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