Antiwar Quotes - Page 19

• Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes

  Murray Edelman

  Hope, Fear, War

  Murray Edelman (2013). “Politics as Symbolic Action: Mass Arousal and Quiescence”, p.1, Elsevier

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• The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Honesty, Integrity, War

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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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• Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

  Helen Keller

  Peace, War, Hero

  Helen Keller's Speech at Carnegie Hall, New York City, under the auspices of the Women's Peace Party and the Labor Forum, January 5, 1916.

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• Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

  Henri Barbusse

  Suicide, War, Fighting

  "Under Fire". Book by Henri Barbusse, 1916.

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• What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Peace, War, Intelligence Services

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• A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Peace, War, Civilized Nations

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• Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

  Hermann Hesse

  Country, War, Enemy

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• 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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• Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

  Horace

  Peace, War, Fall

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• It is not only the living who are killed in war.

  Isaac Asimov

  Veterans Day, Peace, War

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• We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.

  Jacobo Timerman

  Peace, War, Madmen

  Jacobo Timerman (1982). “The longest war: Israel in Lebanon”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision.

  James Bovard

  Peace, War, President

  James Bovard (2015). “Attention Deficit Democracy”, p.8, Macmillan

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• Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

  James Bryce

  Country, Peace, War

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• Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  Peace, War, Party

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• All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.

  John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

  Peace, War, Want

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• In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  Peace, War, Party

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• [War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Concern

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• There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  War, Sacrifice, Boys

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Animal Dreams: A Novel”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Fighting, Wish

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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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• Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.

  John T. Flynn

  Peace, War, Government

  John Thomas Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”, p.213, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Peace, War, Home

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• I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

  Joseph Heller

  Peace, War, Government

  1961 Milo Minderbinder. Catch-22, ch.24.

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