Antiwar Quotes - Page 16

• I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

  Thucydides

  Peace, War, Blame

  Thucydides (1974). “History of the Peloponnesian War”, p.345, Penguin UK

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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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• Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

  Simone Weil

  Peace, War, Struggle

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• War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.

  Samuel B. Pettengill

  Peace, War, People

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• I'd like to think that the best bunker buster is a diplomat.

  Scott Ritter

  War, Thinking, Diplomats

  "Scott Ritter Says Controversial Things About Clinton, Bush, Fox News, the Surge, etc." by Chris Davis, www.memphisflyer.com. May 3, 2008.

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• We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause.

  Scott Ritter

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.

  Scott Ritter

  War, Fighting, Care

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• Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.

  Barbara Boxer

  Peace, War, Iraq

  “Iraq: Credibility, Responsibility, Accountability" by Senator Barbara Boxer, www.ign.com. July 6, 2005.

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• Tis not, 'my country right or wrong'; tis, 'my country, that which is right to be kept right, that which is wrong to be set right'

  Carl Schurz

  Country, War, Anti War

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• This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.

  Robert Byrd

  Peace, War, Sleepwalking

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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 great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

  Simone Weil

  Peace, War, Errors

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  Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

  Thucydides

  Peace, War, Ambition

  Thucydides (1974). “History of the Peloponnesian War”, p.279, Penguin UK

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• If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.

  James Nachtwey

  War, Honest, Photograph

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• One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.

  Stefan Halper

  Peace, War, Keys

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• If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.

  William Graham Sumner

  Peace, War, Thinking

  William Graham Sumner (1919). “War and Other Essays”

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• He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

  Publilius Syrus

  Peace, Fear, War

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• If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.

  William Graham Sumner

  Peace, War, Men

  William Graham Sumner (1919). “War and Other Essays”

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• The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, War, Yield

  "My Early Life: A Roving Commission". Book by Winston Churchill, 1930.

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• Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, War, Believe

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Fighting, Brutality

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.399, Princeton University Press

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• To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, Giving Up, War

  Remarks at White House luncheon,Washington, D.C., 26 June 1954

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• When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

  Plato

  Peace, War, Tyrants

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• Freedom is not nurtured by nations preparing for war.

  William Appleman Williams

  War, Preparing, Nations

  William Appleman Williams, Henry W. Berger (1992). “A William Appleman Williams reader: selections from his major historical writings”, Ivan R Dee

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• We have met the enemy and he is us.

  Walt Kelly

  Trust, Peace, Fun

  Poster for Earth Day (1970). Also appeared in the Pogo comic strip for 8 Aug. 1970.

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