Antiwar Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

  Alexander Pope

  Peace, War, Names

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• At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war.

  Allen Dulles

  Peace, War, Needs

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• Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.

  Andrew Greeley

  Peace, War, United States

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• The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

  Anthony Gregory

  Peace, Real, War

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• Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents.

  Anthony Gregory

  Peace, War, Done

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• Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.

  Art Hoppe

  War, Men, Political

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• Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

  Bertrand Russell

  Peace, War, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Fact and Fiction”, p.276, Routledge

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• The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

  Brendan Behan

  Peace, War, Novelists

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• After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.

  Brooks Atkinson

  War, Democracy, Littles

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• War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Mean, Independent

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  Peace, War, Defense

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• War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Peace, War, Criminals

  "The Pathway of Peace". Speech to the Canadian Bar Association, Montreal, Ontario. "The Pathway of Peace : Representative Addresses Delivered During His Term as as secretary of state (1921-1925)" by Charles Evans Hughes, September 04, 1923.

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• The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn't seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in, bringing loads of fresh new boys for the war.

  Johnny Cash

  War, Boys, Vietnam

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• We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?

  Ramsay MacDonald

  Peace, War, Taken

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• We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic.

  Justin Raimondo

  Peace, War, Patriotic

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• War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

  Chris Hedges

  Peace, Betrayal, War

  Chris Hedges (2005). “Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.

  Chris Hedges

  Peace, War, Essence

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• The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

  Chris Hedges

  Peace, War, Next

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.151, PublicAffairs

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• You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.

  Condoleezza Rice

  War, Hands, Two

  "Anderson Cooper 360°" with Erica Hill, edition.cnn.com. January 30, 2006.

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• As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn't true.

  Craig Murray

  War, Government, Thumbs

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• Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.

  C. S. Lewis

  War, Love You, Christian Love

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

  Karl Hess

  Peace, War, Apology

  "Why Americans Hate Politics" by E.J. Dionne, Jr., Simon & Schuster, (p. 267), 2004.

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• I am not against all wars-just whichever is current.

  Ken Gillespie

  Peace, War, Currents

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• War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.

  Lewis Mumford

  War, Corruption, Producers

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