Antiwar Quotes - Page 30

• The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.

  William Ellery Channing

  Country, Peace, War

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• Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Suicide, War, Fear Of Death

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• Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

  Max Lucado

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Max Lucado (2015). “Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life”, p.101, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.

  Nhat Hanh

  War, Too Late, Preventing

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.200, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Patriotic, Thinking

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  The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Crazy, War

  Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, CreateSpace

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• No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Peace, War, Break Out

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• The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Peace, War, Army

  A J P Taylor (1974). “The First World War: An Illustrated History”, p.15, Penguin UK

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• How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, War, Pieces

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• It is always more valuable to report the truth.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Peace, War, Valuable

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• It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

  John C. Calhoun

  Peace, Freedom, War

  John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 4”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

  John Galsworthy

  Peace, War, Believe

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.7659, Delphi Classics

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• How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

  Laozi

  Peace, War, Men

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• What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, War, Men

  Leo Tolstoy (2009). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Easyread Edition”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war.

  Leslie Groves

  Peace, War, People

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• Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

  Lewis Mumford

  Peace, War, Misery

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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• In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.

  Lewis Mumford

  Peace, War, Army

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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• Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.

  Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe

  Peace, War, Tyrants

  "A gag full of holes". www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2007.

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• One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

  Louis Lecoin

  Peace, War, Doe

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• Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Victory, Well Being

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

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• It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, People, Sticks

  Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian (2010). “Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World”, p.79, Macmillan

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• Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Peace, War, Sacrifice

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• The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.

  James Madison

  Real, War, Home

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.49, University of Virginia Press

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• Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Real, War, Anger

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• People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win....This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands....But people who tamely allow slavery to be imposed on them without resorting to a defensive war are inevitably doomed to years of death and suffering-and far more of each than any war would bring to them....The army doesn't exist that can annihilate men in their own land-not if they love it sufficiently.

  Kenneth Roberts

  War, Army, Winning

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