Antiwar Quotes - Page 14

• War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.

  Lewis Mumford

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.83, University of Chicago Press

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• The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies

  Basil O'Connor

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Peace, Hate, War

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• It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to stamp out terrorism, install democracy, eliminate fascism, and most entertainingly, to "rid the world of evil-doers.

  Arundhati Roy

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.133, Penguin Books India

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• Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Peace, War, Animal Rights

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• War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view 'realistically'; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent – war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.

  Susan Sontag

  Peace, War, Eye

  "Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors".

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• War is fear cloaked in courage.

  William Westmoreland

  Peace, Military, War

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• To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign in the human breast, with much more powerful sway, than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Peace, Powerful, War

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.159, Coventry House Publishing

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• Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Chinese Revolution, Political Will

  Lecture, 1938, in Selected Works (1965) vol. 2, p. 153

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• Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.

  Charles Sumner

  Kings, Queens, Children

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• No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Peace, War, Political

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• Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens.

  Charles Tilly

  Money, War, Mean

  Charles Tilly, Arthur L. Stinchcombe (1997). “Roads from Past to Future”, p.149, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.

  Alfred Adler

  Peace, War, Boys

  Alfred Adler (2002). “The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler: Journal articles : 1914-1920”, p.149, Alfred Adler Institute

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• Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.

  Alfred Adler

  Peace, War, Honor

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• History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.

  Eric Alterman

  Military, War, Example

  Eric Alterman (1999). “Sound and Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy”, p.259, Cornell University Press

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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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• We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Truth, Philosophy

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.163, Best Books on

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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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• I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

  Philip Caputo

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.

  Jose Narosky

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Peace

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• War is the trade of kings.

  John Dryden

  Kings, War, President

  'King Arthur' (1691) act 2, sc. 2

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• From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

  Thomas Paine

  War, Government, Extortion

  Thomas Paine (1852). “The Rights of Man: With a Brief Historical Preface”, p.109

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