Antiwar Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Peace, War, Civilization

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• They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretarry of state”, p.288

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• If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Truth, War, Asking Questions

  Gravity's Rainbow episode 28 (1973)

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• 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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• Any forces that would impose their will on other nations will certainly face defeat.

  Vo Nguyen Giap

  Peace, War, Faces

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• Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Peace, War, Party

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• Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.

  Georges Sorel

  Country, Peace, Hate

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• Victory means exit strategy. And it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.

  George W. Bush

  Peace, War, Mean

  "Sen. John McCain Praises Bush's Address". "Hannity & Colmes" with Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. June 28, 2005.

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• ...the role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place.

  George W. Bush

  Peace, Military, War

  George W. Bush at the first presidential debate at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, Massachusetts, www.debates.org. October 3, 2000.

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• It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.

  Thucydides

  Peace, War, Men

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• This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

  Tom Daschle

  Peace, War, President

  "The Trouble With Senator Tom Daschle". www.foxnews.com. March 20, 2003.

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• That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

  T. S. Eliot

  Peace, War, Names

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• Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Peace, War, Passion

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• Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

  Vera Brittain

  War, Modern, Civilisation

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• A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Peace, War, Army

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.98, SUNY Press

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• War is the only game in which both sides lose.

  Walter Scott

  War, Games, Sides

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Responsibility, World

  Harry S. Truman, Howard B. Furer, United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman) (1970). “Harry S. Truman, 1884- : chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

  Havelock Ellis

  Suicide, Peace, War

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