Anti War Quotes - Page 17

• What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

  Barbara Jordan

  Peace, Integrity, War

  Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). “Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait”, Doubleday Books

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• Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

  Immanuel Kant

  Peace, War, Evil

  Carl Joachim Friedrich, Immanuel Kant (1969). “Inevitable peace”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

  John F. Kennedy

  Christian, Peace, War

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.163, Best Books on

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• Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Victory

  Speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations, September 25, 1961.

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• 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.

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• How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

  Karl Kraus

  Funny, War, Lying

  Aphorism collected in Heinrich Fischer (ed) Beim Wort genommen (1955). Translated by Harry Zohn in Half-truths and one-and-a-half truths (1986).

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  America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

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• Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, War, Government

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.301, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

  Walter Lippmann

  Peace, Wall, War

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• All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

  John Locke

  Peace, War, Independent

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.191

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• No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

  Pope Paul VI

  War, Destiny, People

  Pope Paul VI (2007). “Christian Values and Virtues”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  War, Fighting, Order

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• We are all victims of war, and we all count.

  Marla Ruzicka

  War, Victim, Victims Of War

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• Does the commandment 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning 'Thou shalt not kill except on the grand scale,' or 'Thou shalt not kill except when the national leaders say to do so'?

  Linus Pauling

  War, Mean, Leader

  Linus Pauling, Barbara Marinacci (1995). “Linus Pauling in His Own Words: Selections From His Writings, Speeches and Interviews”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

  Sigmund Freud

  Peace, War, Violence

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Angela Richards (1971). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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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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• War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.

  Ken Gillespie

  Peace, War, Boys

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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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• I hate it when they say, �He gave his life for his country.� They don�t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.

  Gene La Rocque

  Country, Peace, Hate

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• Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, War, Humor

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  Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

  William Penn

  Peace, Integrity, War

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• Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, Honesty, War

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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• We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Army

  Thomas Jefferson (1976). “Thomas Jefferson, revolutionary philosopher: a selection of writings”, Barron's Educational Series

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• Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Order

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.163, Algora Publishing

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