No War Quotes - Page 5

• To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

  Thomas Paine

  Funny, Motivation, War

  Thomas Paine (1791). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.160

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• When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Peace, War, Politics

  Le Diable et le bon Dieu (The Devil and the Good Lord, 1951) act 1, first tableau

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• Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Peace, Brother, War

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.286

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• In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, War, Independent

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1904). “Essays, letters, miscellanies”

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• "Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Strong, War, Violence

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

  Dustin Hoffman

  War, Believe, Oil

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• The matriarchal society 1300 years ago in Egypt was a peaceful society; that's where you had no war for thousands of years! When they switched to patriarchal society, when the male energy ruled, we became obsessed with the greed. Now we are in this time of intense greed!

  David LaChapelle

  War, Egypt, Years

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Peace, War, Army

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• No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Peace, War

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.268, Penguin

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• No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.

  Elisabeth Marbury

  War, Names, Bitter

  Elisabeth Marbury (1924). “My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences”, New York : Boni and Liveright

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• no war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired.

  Margaret Case Harriman

  War, Long, Shots

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• No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.

  Edgar S. Brightman

  Fear, War, Power

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• If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.

  Sophie Kerr

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

  Anne O'Hare McCormick

  Peace, Real, War

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• I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else.

  Simon Hoggart

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

  "Simon Hoggart's week: Ever heard of an agnostic suicide bomber?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2012.

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• Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

  Abraham Flexner

  Education, Peace, Money

  Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.302, Transaction Publishers

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• The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the individual, "crime".

  Max Stirner

  War, Law, Practice

  Max Stirner (1982). “The Ego and Its Own”, p.197, Rebel Press

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• To die, so young to die. No, no, not I, I love the warm sunny skies, light, song, shining eyes, I want no war, no battle cry, No, no, not I.

  Hannah Szenes

  Song, Peace, War

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• Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war, you die with clean boots on.

  Gerald Kersh

  War, Shining, Navy

  Gerald Kersh (1945). “Sergeant Nelson of the Guards”, J.C. Winston Company

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• The regenerated do not go to war, nor engage in strife. They are children of peace who have beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning forks, and know no war.

  Menno Simons

  Children, War, Pruning

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• National Socialist Germany wishes for peace because it recognises the simple fact that no war would be likely to substantially to ameliorate the state of distress in Europe.  The distress would probably be made the greater thereby. If only the leaders and rulers had wanted peace, the people would never have wished for war.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Simple, Europe

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• If every soldier refused to take arms ... there would be no wars; but no one has the courage to be the first to live according to Christ and Socrates, because in a world of opportunists they would be martyred.

  Sylvia Plath

  War, Soldier, Would Be

  Sylvia Plath, Aurelia Schober Plath (1975). “Letters home: correspondence, 1950-1963”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.

  Zelda Popkin

  Revenge, Hate, War

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• Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.

  Dale Spender

  Education, War, Women

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• I think an appeal to arms and to brute force is unbecoming the age in which we live. Would to God that the time had come when there should be no war, and that religion and peace should reign throughout the world.

  Robert Anderson

  War, Thinking, Age

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