Anti War Quotes - Page 27

• Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Respect, Peace, Freedom

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• Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

  Gregory Bateson

  Peace, War, Moving

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• Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

  Hannah Arendt

  Peace, War, People

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• War is a bankruptcy of policy

  Hans von Seeckt

  War, Policy, Bankruptcy

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• Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

  Havelock Ellis

  Suicide, Peace, War

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• Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

  Helen Keller

  Peace, War, Hero

  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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• Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

  Henri Barbusse

  Suicide, War, Fighting

  "Under Fire". Book by Henri Barbusse, 1916.

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• What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Peace, War, Intelligence Services

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• After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Peace, War, Enemy

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• One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

  Louis Lecoin

  Peace, War, Doe

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• I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

  Mark Twain

  War, Eagles, Land

  Mark Twain (1970). “King Leopold's Soliloquy”, p.8, LeftWord Books

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• I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals ... there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the wars - allw ars: God damn every war: God damn 'em! God damn 'em!

  Walt Whitman

  War, Ems, Saws

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• The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, War, People

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• Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?

  Wally Herger

  Peace, War, Blood

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• Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Peace, War, Hatred

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• One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

  Randolph Bourne

  Peace, War, Healthy

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• In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  Peace, War, Party

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• A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Peace, War, Civilized Nations

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• Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Government

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, Peace, Fear

  Douglas MacArthur's speech to the Michigan Legislature in Lansing (May 15, 1952) as quoted in "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964" edited by Edward T. Imparato (p. 206), June 14, 2000.

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• I was involved in the anti-war movement.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Movement, Involved

  "'H&C' Panel Reacts to Bill Ayers' Interview With 'Good Morning America'". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. November 17, 2008.

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• I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

  H. L. Mencken

  Peace, Freedom, War

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  The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

  John Stuart Mill

  War, Power, Libertarian Party

  On Liberty ch. 1 (1859)

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• Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

  Madame de Stael

  Peace, Truth, War

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• We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

  Serj Tankian

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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

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