Helen Keller Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

  Helen Keller

  War, Hero, Mean

  Helen Keller's Speech at Carnegie Hall, New York City, under the auspices of the Women's Peace Party and the Labor Forum, January 5, 1916.

• Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought.

  Helen Keller

  Peace, War, Battle

  Helen Keller's Speech at Carnegie Hall, New York City, under the auspices of the Women's Peace Party and the Labor Forum, January 5, 1916.

• Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

  Helen Keller

  Peace, War, Hero

  Helen Keller's Speech at Carnegie Hall, New York City, under the auspices of the Women's Peace Party and the Labor Forum, January 5, 1916.

• I cannot but say a word and look my disapproval when I hear that my country is spending millions for war and war engines-more, I have heard, than twice as much as the entire public school system costs the nation.

  Helen Keller

  Country, War, School

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.42, American Foundation for the Blind

• The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it is a fraud. It compels the present society to admit that it has no morals it will not sacrifice for gain.

  Helen Keller

  War, Sacrifice, Faces

• I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

  Helen Keller

  War, Looks, Feuds

• I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

  Helen Keller

  War, Believe, Fruit

  Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.141, NYU Press

• Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.

  Helen Keller

  War, Roots, Modern

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