Anti War Quotes - Page 18

• We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Peace, War, Teaching

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• A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Country, Freedom

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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• An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

  Thomas Paine

  Peace, War, 4th Of July

  "Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion".

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• It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

  Thomas Paine

  Peace, Truth, War

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.284

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• War remains the decisive human failure.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Peace, War, Humans

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2004). “The Economics of Innocent Fraud”, Penguin Hardcover

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• Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Peace, War, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Either war is obsolete, or men are.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Veterans Day, Peace, Military

  Quoted in New Yorker, 8 Jan. 1966

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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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• Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

  Jane Addams

  Fear, Government, Self

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• Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world's expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being.

  Pope John Paul II

  Freedom, Justice, Expectations

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• Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

  John Lindsay

  Peace, Freedom, War

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• No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Peace, War, Patriotic

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

  Alfred Adler

  Peace, War, Mean

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• The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

  Aristide Briand

  Peace, Writing, Gun

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• There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

  Ralph Bunche

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• Politics is the womb in which war develops.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Peace, War, Womb

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.149, Princeton University Press

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• The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

  Ramsey Clark

  Peace, War, World

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• War is the ultimate tool of politics.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Peace, War, Tools

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

  Edmund Burke

  War, Long, People

  Edmund Burke (1855). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Charge against Warren Hastings concluded”, p.189

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• I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

  Jim Garrison

  Peace, War, Names

  Playboy interview, October, 1967.

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• We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.

  John Frederick Maurice

  Peace, War, Believe

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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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• Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

  Marcus Aurelius

  War, Philosophical, Future

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• War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

  Alfred Adler

  Peace, Brother, War

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