Antiwar Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• It's really not a number I'm terribly interested in.

  Colin Powell

  War, Iraq, Numbers

  "After The War; Powell Says U.S. Will Stay In Iraq 'For Some Months'" by Patrick E. Tyler, www.nytimes.com. March 23, 1991.

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• And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.

  Aristotle

  Art, War, Long

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.68, Aristotle

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• It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so often inspired heroism and have led men to give their lives for things which make life worthwhile, can also become a trap, the means of destroying the very things men desire to uphold.

  Norman Angell

  War, Mean, Men

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• In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

  Eduardo Galeano

  War, Struggle, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.

  Ben Shahn

  War, Blood, Reputation

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• Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.

  George Washington

  War, Character, Self

  George Washington (1856). “The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States”, p.241

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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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• 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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• 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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• Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, 'War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.'

  Immanuel Kant

  War, Men, Order

  Immanuel Kant (2007). “Perpetual Peace”, p.36, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Philosophy, War

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• If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Fate

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Attitude, War

  Ludwig von Mises (2013). “The Theory of Money and Credit”, p.394, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Fighting, Wish

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• Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Humanity, Criminals

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.370, Tara Publishing

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• The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Peace, War, Men

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