Antiwar Quotes - Page 22

• Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

  Edward Abbey

  Fear, Military, War

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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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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• How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?

  Adin Ballou

  Religious, War, Men

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• ...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.

  Robert Higgs

  Peace, War, People

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• When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.

  Robert Higgs

  Peace, War, Lying

  Robert Higgs (2005). “Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11”, Independent Inst

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• The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.

  Louis Simpson

  Military, War, Men

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• They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke. ... Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Freedom, War, Self

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• 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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• 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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• If you sacrifice liberty for security, you will lose both.

  Ron Paul

  War, Sacrifice, Liberty

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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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• 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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• 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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• Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.

  Desmond Tutu

  Peace, War, Gun

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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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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• 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 very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.

  Murray Rothbard

  Peace, War, Technology

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