Anti War Quotes - Page 23

• Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

  David Dellinger

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

  Marquis de Sade

  Peace, War, Principles

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• Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Suicide, War, Fear Of Death

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• The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilize savage and senile and paranoidal peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells or metal mines.

  John T. Flynn

  Peace, Moving, Destiny

  John T. Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”

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• The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not.

  Alain Enthoven

  Peace, Weapons, Matter

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• Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, Truth, Integrity

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8”, p.557, Best Books on

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• Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, War, Hard Work

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• Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don’t know and have compassion for them at the same time?

  Wendell Berry

  Children, Mean, Compassion

  Wendell Berry (2005). “Hannah Coulter: A Novel”, p.168, Counterpoint Press

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• Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

  Richard Cobden

  Peace, War, Commerce

  Richard Cobden (1854). “Russia and the Eastern Question”, p.33

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• Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

  W. L. George

  Peace, Hate, Military

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• We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

  Marquis de Sade

  Peace, War, Technique

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• That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Money, War

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.331, e-artnow

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• Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pride, Racism, Teeth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.

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• War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Norman Cousins (1963). “The New Realities The First Richard Joshua Reynolds Lecture at Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia, Nov. 19, 1963”

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• War technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism.

  Stan Goff

  Peace, War, Technology

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• Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mean, Doe, Happens

  "Realism in Darfur" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. November 7, 2005.

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• Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, War, Party

  Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (222), 1956.

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• So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.

  William Faulkner

  Peace, War, Long

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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• Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

  Peter Ustinov

  Peace, Money, War

  "Achtung! Vorurteile". Book by Peter Ustinov, February 10, 2003.

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• What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Believe, Glaciers

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.144, Infobase Publishing

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• War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

  Karl Kraus

  War, Fighting, Winning

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.153, Syracuse University Press

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• Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts.

  Clarence Darrow

  Peace, Attitude, Men

  Clarence Darrow, S. T. Joshi (2005). “Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society”, p.89, Ohio University Press

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• We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.

  Scott Ritter

  War, Fighting, Care

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• I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Fighting, Essence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.345, Grove Press

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