Antiwar Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

  Randolph Bourne

  Peace, War, Healthy

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• Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

  Richard Cobden

  Peace, War, Commerce

  Richard Cobden (1854). “Russia and the Eastern Question”, p.33

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• Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Conflict

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us?

  Ron Paul

  War, Thinking, Reason

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• Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic.

  Ron Paul

  War, Tactics, Terror

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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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• 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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• Wars should be over in three days or less...and the American people must be all for it from the outset.

  Evan Thomas

  Peace, War, People

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• We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.

  Francis John McConnell

  Peace, War, Ideas

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• We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

  Francis John McConnell

  Peace, War, Patriotism

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• All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

  Frank Chodorov

  Peace, War, Political

  Frank Chodorov, Charles H. Hamilton (1980). “Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

  Frank Chodorov

  Peace, Giving Up, War

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• The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

  Frank Chodorov

  Peace, War, Fighting

  Frank Chodorov (1980). “Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

  Frank Herbert

  War, Power Corrupts, Magnet

  "Chapterhouse: Dune".

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• Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Peace, War, Men

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

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• The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

  Garet Garrett

  Peace, War, Blow

  Garet Garrett (1965). “The people's pottage”, Caxton Printers

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• Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

  Garet Garrett

  Peace, War, Want

  Garet Garrett (1955). “The American Story”, p.393, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.

  Garet Garrett

  Country, Peace, War

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• I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.

  Colin Powell

  Peace, War, Historical

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• I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Believe, Effort

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• In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Suicide, War, Loss

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