Anti War Quotes - Page 20

• If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  War, Long, Victory

  "All Men Are Mortal". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1946.

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• As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Trust, Truth

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Peace, Freedom, War

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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  Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

  James Bryce

  Country, Memorial Day, Peace

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• No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Peace, War, Guarantees

  Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

  Marianne Faithfull

  War, Wings, Empires

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• Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

  Oriana Fallaci

  Peace, War, Patient

  Oriana Fallaci (1972). “Nothing, and So be it”

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• You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Peace, War, Women

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• Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.

  E. M. Forster

  Peace, War, Incredibles

  "Howard's End".

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• Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

  Sigmund Freud

  Peace, War, Men

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.40, Courier Dover Publications

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• I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions.

  Vaclav Havel

  Military, Hero, Creativity

  "Critic's Notebook; The Writers Who Shook a Government" by Michiko Kakutani, www.nytimes.com. February 8, 1990.

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• Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Peace, War, Philosophical

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• God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

  Euripides

  Peace, Hate, War

  Euripides (1968). “Euripides: The Cyclops, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Heracles, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Tauris, translated by W. Bynner. Helen translated by R. Lattimore”

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• May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Military

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.524, Best Books on

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• Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

  Elias Canetti

  Peace, War, Want

  Elias Canetti (1962). “Crowds and power: Masse und Macht]”

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• All the gods are dead except the god of war.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Peace, War, God Of War

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

  Edward Kennedy

  War, Ideas, Goal

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• History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

  Enoch Powell

  Witty, Peace, War

  "Freedom and reality".

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• We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.

  Francis John McConnell

  Peace, War, Ideas

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• My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.

  Ella Baker

  Strong, War, People

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• A hospital alone shows what war is.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Peace, War, Hospitality

  Harold Bloom, Erich Maria Remarque (2008). “Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front”, p.70, Infobase Publishing

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• Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.293, Princeton University Press

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  True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

  Clarence Darrow

  Memorial Day, Peace, Hate

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• The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

  John Foster Dulles

  Peace, War, Sacrifice

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• From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

  Denis Diderot

  Peace, War, Tyrants

  "Essai sur le Mérite de la Vertu". A translation and adaptation of "Inquiry concerning Virtue or Merit" by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, 1745.

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