Anti War Quotes - Page 19

• It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

  Alfred Adler

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Courage

  In Phyllis Bottome Alfred Adler (1939) p. 76

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• The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies

  Basil O'Connor

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• War is fear cloaked in courage.

  William Westmoreland

  Peace, Military, War

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• I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.

  Sheryl Crow

  Peace, War, Thinking

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• ...how many times must the cannon balls fly
  Before they're forever banned?

  Bob Dylan

  Peace, Forever, Balls

  Song: Blowin' In The Wind

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• The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, War, Patriotism

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Peace, War, Individual

  Ulysses S. Grant (2007). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, War, Men

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• The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

  Ron Paul

  Money, Peace, War

  Ron Paul (1987). “Freedom Under Siege”, p.60, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Suicide, War, Thinking

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• It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

  Olive Schreiner

  Peace, War, Noble

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• To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

  Thomas Paine

  Funny, Motivation, War

  Thomas Paine (1791). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.160

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• More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Government

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• War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.

  Lewis Mumford

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.83, University of Chicago Press

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• Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Peace, Hurt

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Cunning'

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• Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

  Bernard Baruch

  Peace, War, World Destruction

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1946). “United States atomic energy proposals: Statement of the United States policy on control of atomic energy”

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• To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

  Voltaire

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.130, Penguin

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• Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

  Mark Twain

  Loyalty, Country, Peace

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Peace, War, Military

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• We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, War, Growth

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Kids, Shots

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• Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

  Edmund Burke

  Peace, War, Tyrants

  'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' (1791) p. 25

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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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• War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

  John McCain

  Peace, War, Reality

  John McCain's Speech to the American Red Cross "Promise of Humanity" Conference, www.mccain.senate.gov. May 6, 1999.

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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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