Anti War Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• I say openly that I am an anti-war person, with the point being, show me some reason not to be against this war. You have to be sort of asleep at the switch not to be critical of it. And the parallel between one quagmire we went through in Vietnam and the one we're in now is clear for everybody to see.

  Seymour Hersh

  War, Quagmire, Vietnam

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn't attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it's not about waging a war against everybody's disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mother, War, Disease

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.

  Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement

  Naomi Klein

  War, Democracy, Movement

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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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• In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Peace, Military, War

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• The world is starving for American leadership. But America has an anti-war president.

  John Boehner

  War, America, President

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. March 29, 2015.

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• Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean was all smiles, well smirks, after picking up the endorsement of former Vice President Al Gore at a rally in Harlem ... Gore went on to praise Dean for taking a tough anti-war stance before the invasion of Iraq and he praised Dean supporters in hopes that will ease his concerns over lack of foreign policy experience, and his lack of support among blacks and Latinos, and his hot temperament, and perceived arrogance, and policy flip-flops, and campaign glitches. Well, there's a lot going on here.

  Jon Stewart

  War, Iraq, Support

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• I'm a child of the '60s, I came of age then. I went to a couple of demonstrations, and then in the late '60s when the Vietnam anti-war movement grew as the Vietnam War was heating up, I became very involved in that.

  Simi Linton

  Children, Couple, War

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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 truth is an anti-war statement in itself.

  Henry Rollins

  War, Truth Is, Statements

  "Tough-talker Henry Rollins Is Back, Keeping Things Israel". Interview with Anthony Layser, www.tvguide.com. April 13, 2007.

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• By 1973, John Kerry had already accused American soldiers of committing war crimes in Vietnam, thrown someone else's medals to the ground in an anti-war demonstration, and married his first heiress.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Soldier, Vietnam

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• In many ways, I have no idea what would have become of me if punk hadn't happened, because the '70s turned out to be so stale, and so boring, and so backward compared to what had come just before. We were too young to have fully experienced the '60s and the fervor of the anti-war movement.

  Jello Biafra

  War, Ideas, Movement

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• May I just single out for salutations, on the "anti-war" side: Pop Stars For Appeasement, Dancers Against Democracy, Actors For Apathy, Fashionistas For Fascism and Jugglers For Genocide. All of them united under that flaccid flag of convenience, Show-Offs For Saddam.

  Julie Burchill

  Stars, War, Dancer

  "Silly show-offs against Saddam!" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2003.

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• There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Peace, War, Lying

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• One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

  Howard Zinn

  Peace, War, Expression

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.236, Seven Stories Press

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• Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica - they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  War, Rap, Kids

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• Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.

  George Orwell

  Real, War, Practice

  George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

  William Ralph Inge

  Trust, Peace, War

  Philosophy of Plotinus Lecture 22 (1923)

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• The world should take notice when someone...with a fanatic mind and with powerful means, receives his marching orders from Heaven.

  Rodrigue Tremblay

  Peace, Powerful, War

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• Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs peace to evolve.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Peace, War, America

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• The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

  E. B. White

  Peace, Father, War

  1954 The Second Tree from the Corner, 'The Second Tree from the Corner'.

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