Anti War Quotes - Page 28

• Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Peace, War, Community

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• Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Lying

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. 1970.

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• Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Faith, Death, War

  "The Boss picks his voice of America" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2008.

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• Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

  Madame de Stael

  Peace, Truth, War

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• Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.

  Cat Stevens

  War, Nice, Europe

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• We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

  Serj Tankian

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

  Saint Augustine

  Peace, War, Men

  "Defeating Militant Islamist Ideology" by Austin Bay, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 22, 2010.

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• I see the bomber pictures as an anti-war statement... which they aren't - at all. Pictures like that don't do anything to combat war. They only show one tiny aspect of the subject of war - maybe only my own childish feelings of fear and fascination with war and with weapons of that kind.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, War, Feelings

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• I was involved in the anti-war movement.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Movement, Involved

  "'H&C' Panel Reacts to Bill Ayers' Interview With 'Good Morning America'". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. November 17, 2008.

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• We're here to let the Democrats know that the grass roots and the anti-war movement elected them to create change.

  Cindy Sheehan

  War, Roots, Movement

  "Bush, Democrats spar on spending, taxes" by Lisa Goddard, www.cnn.com. January 3, 2007.

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• I am really interested in who owns ideas of religion. What if I say I'm a libertarian, socialist, Occupy-supporting, anti-war, Christian? Is that a controversial idea? I don't see anything really in the original semiotics of Christianity, in the specific parable of the radical socialist Jew from Galilee who becomes the hero figure in the Homeric-word-of-mouth-gossip-novel that becomes the Bible that should make that a paradox.

  Robert Montgomery

  Christian, War, Hero

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Vietnam, Movement

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

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• The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Philosophy, War

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• If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Fate

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Attitude, War

  Ludwig von Mises (2013). “The Theory of Money and Credit”, p.394, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Fighting, Wish

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• Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Humanity, Criminals

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.370, Tara Publishing

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• The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Peace, War, Men

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• Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

  Mark Twain

  Peace, War, Animal

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• Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

  Mark Twain

  Peace, War, Looks

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• I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Organizer, Nationality

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.63, Beacon Press

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• One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Peace, War, Force

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• All government wars are unjust.

  Murray Rothbard

  Peace, War, Government

  As quoted in an interview in "Reason" Magazine, February 1973.

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• No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.

  Pat Buchanan

  Peace, War, Play

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• Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to kill people and to destroy.

  Thomas S. Power

  Peace, Jobs, Military

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