Antiwar Quotes - Page 12

• An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

  Thomas Paine

  Peace, War, 4th Of July

  "Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion".

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• Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  War, Men, Leader

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• There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

  George Holyoake

  Truth, War, Practice

  George Jacob Holyoake (1850). “The History of the Last Trial by Jury for Atheism in England: A Fragment of Autobiography, Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney General and the British Clergy”, p.37

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• Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

  Unknown

  Truth, War, Lying

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• The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

  Mark Twain

  Peace, Truth, Lying

  Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…”, p.2818, e-artnow

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• War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

  Ron Paul

  Money, War, Historical

  "Conscription – The Terrible Price of War". www.antiwar.com. November 26, 2003.

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• I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

  Harold Pinter

  War, Thinking, Criminals

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. December 22, 2002.

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• You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

  Roman Polanski

  War, People, Upset

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

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• War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

  Colin Powell

  Peace, Military, War

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, Peace, War

  Ronald Reagan's Remarks at the National Conference of the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, www.reaganfoundation.org. March 30, 1981.

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• Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Rights

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• Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

  Will Rogers

  Peace, War, Fall

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Responsibility

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.442, Simon and Schuster

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• Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.

  Baudouin of Belgium

  Peace, War, Men

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• Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

  Marquis de Sade

  Peace, War, Order

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• 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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• A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, Peace, War

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• It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

  Olive Schreiner

  Peace, War, Noble

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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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• The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, War, Patriotism

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

  Laozi

  War, Taoism, Violence

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• We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, War, Growth

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

  Mark Twain

  Loyalty, Country, Peace

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

  Paul Valery

  War, People, Poetry

  Bizarre, issues 24-31, (p. 102), 1962.

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• I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.'

  Jesse Ventura

  War, Book, Teaching

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