Anti War Quotes - Page 12

• The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Self, Vision

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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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• Everything you do in war is a crime in peace

  Helen McCloy

  War, Crime, No War

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• This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.

  Robert Kennedy

  War, Soul, Violence

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

  Garet Garrett

  Peace, War, Blow

  Garet Garrett (1965). “The people's pottage”, Caxton Printers

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• Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Peace, War, Men

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

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• I'd like to think that the best bunker buster is a diplomat.

  Scott Ritter

  War, Thinking, Diplomats

  "Scott Ritter Says Controversial Things About Clinton, Bush, Fox News, the Surge, etc." by Chris Davis, www.memphisflyer.com. May 3, 2008.

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• All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

  Frank Herbert

  War, Power Corrupts, Magnet

  "Chapterhouse: Dune".

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• There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Peace, War, United States

  Noam Chomsky (2002). “Pirates and Emperors, Old and New: International Terrorism in the Real World”, p.122, South End Press

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• War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

  Smedley Butler

  Peace, War, Racket

  Smedley Butler, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell (2015). “War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading”, p.5, The Forlorn Press

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• The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

  Frank Chodorov

  Peace, War, Fighting

  Frank Chodorov (1980). “Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• When we fill our souls up with creativity, artistry and intelligence ...we have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads to destruction.

  Rick DellaRatta

  Peace, War, Creativity

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• All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

  Frank Chodorov

  Peace, War, Political

  Frank Chodorov, Charles H. Hamilton (1980). “Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.

  Colin Powell

  Peace, War, Historical

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• War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Peace, War, Civilization

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• You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.

  Pope Pius XII

  War, Antiwar, Loses

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• Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

  Robert Higgs

  Peace, War, President

  Robert Higgs (2005). “Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11”, Independent Inst

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• It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

  H. G. Wells

  Peace, War, Men

  "The Salvaging of Civilization".

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• Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of insane tyrants who hear voices.

  Rodrigue Tremblay

  War, Tyrants, Voice

  Rodrigue Tremblay, Paul Kurtz (2010). “The Code for Global Ethics: Ten Humanist Principles”

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• Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

  Garet Garrett

  Peace, War, Want

  Garet Garrett (1955). “The American Story”, p.393, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.

  Garet Garrett

  Country, Peace, War

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• War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.

  Samuel B. Pettengill

  Peace, War, People

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• No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Peace, War, Lying

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• It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Freedom, War, Patriotic

  "Ladies' Home Journal" Magazine, May 1958.

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• To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Fighting, Brutality

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.399, Princeton University Press

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