No War Quotes - Page 8

• There is no war on terrorism; it is the great game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us all.

  John Pilger

  War, Games, Differences

  "The great charade". www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2002.

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• War is possible only if you have a lot of enemies. If all the enemies get together and form one front - if you cut down the number of enemies - there would be no war.

  Albert Kesselring

  War, Cutting, Numbers

  "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.

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• Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, and can prevent the pending extermination of man by man on this planet. Without love, no armament, no war, no diplomatic machinations, no coercive police force, no school education, no economic or political measures, not even hydrogen bombs can prevent the pending catastrophe.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Love, Education, War

  Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (2002). “The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation”, p.12, Templeton Foundation Press

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• Have you ever noticed that the only metaphor we have in our public discourse for solving problems is to declare war on it? We have the war on crime, the war on
  cancer, the war on drugs. But did you ever notice that we have no war on homelessness? You know why? Because there's no money in that problem. No money to be made off of the homeless. If you can find a solution to homelessness where the corporations and politicians can make a few million dollars each, you will see the streets of America begin to clear up pretty damn quick!

  George Carlin

  War, Cancer, America

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• I have spent my life in the study of military strength as a deterrent to war, and in the character of military armaments necessary to win a war. The study of the first of these questions is still profitable, but we are rapidly getting to the point that no war can be won.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, War, Character

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• Hitler will have no war (does not want war), but we will force it on him, not this year, but soon.

  Emil Ludwig

  War, Years, Holocaust

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• The Holy Koran, our religious book, teaches us, that we who declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims, do not participate in no wars, in no way, fashion or form, that take the lives of other humans.

  Muhammad Ali

  Fashion, Religious, War

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

  Ellen Key

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

  Louis Lecoin

  Peace, War, Being Real

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• Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

  Colman McCarthy

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"

  Eve Merriam

  Mother, Dream, Veterans Day

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• It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

  Albert J. Nock

  Money, War, States

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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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• I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, People

  Letter to William Charles Jarvis, 28 Sept. 1820

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• Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe. The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation. Germany needs peace and desires peace!

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Flower, Simple

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• The first casualty when war comes is truth.

  Hiram Johnson

  Peace, War, Firsts

  1917 Speech, US Senate.

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• A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.

  Livy

  Peace, Victory, Anti War

  "The History of Rome".

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• They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Peace, Military, War

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Fighting, Odds Against You

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, War, Humanity

  "Letters to Atticus" (1st century B.C.), as quoted in "Words on war: military quotations from ancient times to the present", book by Jay M. Shafritz, 1990.

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• When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

  Herodotus

  Peace, Father, Military

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• I agree with Pres. Barack Obama, Iraqis need a political solution. No war in Iraq!

  Barbara Lee

  Military, War, Iraq

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• Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but on the whole of good intentions which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made not usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies pursued by good men usually passionately convinced that they are right.

  Norman Angell

  War, Men, Knowing

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. June 12, 1935.

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• The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

  Max Lerner

  War, Way, Energy

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