Antiwar Quotes - Page 6

• I have learned from first hand experience that war is the destroyer of everything that is good in the world, it turns our young into soulless killers and we tell them that they are heroes when they master the 'art' of killing.

  Kevin Benderman

  Art, War, Hero

  Kevin Benderman (2007). “Letters from Fort Lewis Brig: A Matter of Conscience”

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• We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Peace, War, Teaching

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• The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

  E. B. White

  Peace, Father, War

  1954 The Second Tree from the Corner, 'The Second Tree from the Corner'.

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• During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

  Howard Thurman

  Peace, War, Hatred

  Howard Thurman (2012). “Jesus and the Disinherited”, p.74, Beacon Press

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• The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

  Luc de Clapiers

  War, Tyrants, Desire

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• Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

  Edward Everett

  Education, Freedom, War

  "The Common School Journal and Educational Reformer" edited by William B. Fowle, 1852.

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• Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.

  E. M. Forster

  Peace, War, Incredibles

  "Howard's End".

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• I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Peace, Hate, War

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• You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

  Barry Goldwater

  Peace, War, Bombs

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• Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

  Daniel Goleman

  Peace, War, Weight

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• We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

  Benjamin Harrison

  War, Presidential, Police

  Benjamin Harrison, United States. President (1889-1893 : Harrison) (1969). “Benjamin Harrison, 1833-1901: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Peace, War, Philosophical

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• I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Poison Gas, Tribes

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.375, RosettaBooks

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• No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Peace, War, Wipe

  "Treasury of the Free World". Book by Ben Raeburn. Introduction to the book, 1946.

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• Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

  Madame de Stael

  Peace, Truth, War

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• War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

  Karl Kraus

  War, Fighting, Winning

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.153, Syracuse University Press

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• To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

  Tacitus

  Peace, War, Empires

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• An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Peace, War, Empires

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• Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

  Alan Watts

  Peace, War, Principles

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• American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of those killed were civilians, in the Second World War 48 percent, while in a Third World War 90-95 percent would be civilians.

  Colin Ward

  War, America, Would Be

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• What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

  Simone Weil

  Country, Peace, War

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• There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

  George Washington

  Peace, War, Enemy

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.102

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• War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Money, War

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• Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Invention

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• A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Order

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

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