Anti War Quotes - Page 28

• Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.

  Cat Stevens

  War, Nice, Europe

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• The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

  Hannah Arendt

  Peace, War, Errors

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

  Saint Augustine

  Peace, War, Men

  "Defeating Militant Islamist Ideology" by Austin Bay, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 22, 2010.

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• Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Faith, Death, War

  "The Boss picks his voice of America" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2008.

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• Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Lying

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. 1970.

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• Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Peace, War, Community

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• Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

  Marquis de Sade

  Peace, War, Order

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• Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Depressing, Peace, War

  "The unknown Afghan body count" by James Denselow, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2010.

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• I see the bomber pictures as an anti-war statement... which they aren't - at all. Pictures like that don't do anything to combat war. They only show one tiny aspect of the subject of war - maybe only my own childish feelings of fear and fascination with war and with weapons of that kind.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, War, Feelings

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• The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Philosophy, War

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• May I just single out for salutations, on the "anti-war" side: Pop Stars For Appeasement, Dancers Against Democracy, Actors For Apathy, Fashionistas For Fascism and Jugglers For Genocide. All of them united under that flaccid flag of convenience, Show-Offs For Saddam.

  Julie Burchill

  Stars, War, Dancer

  "Silly show-offs against Saddam!" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2003.

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• In many ways, I have no idea what would have become of me if punk hadn't happened, because the '70s turned out to be so stale, and so boring, and so backward compared to what had come just before. We were too young to have fully experienced the '60s and the fervor of the anti-war movement.

  Jello Biafra

  War, Ideas, Movement

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• By 1973, John Kerry had already accused American soldiers of committing war crimes in Vietnam, thrown someone else's medals to the ground in an anti-war demonstration, and married his first heiress.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Soldier, Vietnam

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• I am really interested in who owns ideas of religion. What if I say I'm a libertarian, socialist, Occupy-supporting, anti-war, Christian? Is that a controversial idea? I don't see anything really in the original semiotics of Christianity, in the specific parable of the radical socialist Jew from Galilee who becomes the hero figure in the Homeric-word-of-mouth-gossip-novel that becomes the Bible that should make that a paradox.

  Robert Montgomery

  Christian, War, Hero

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We're here to let the Democrats know that the grass roots and the anti-war movement elected them to create change.

  Cindy Sheehan

  War, Roots, Movement

  "Bush, Democrats spar on spending, taxes" by Lisa Goddard, www.cnn.com. January 3, 2007.

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• The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.

  Henry Rollins

  War, Truth Is, Statements

  "Tough-talker Henry Rollins Is Back, Keeping Things Israel". Interview with Anthony Layser, www.tvguide.com. April 13, 2007.

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• The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Peace, War, Men

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• Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

  Mark Twain

  Peace, War, Animal

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• Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

  Mark Twain

  Peace, War, Looks

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• Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Humanity, Criminals

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.370, Tara Publishing

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• We were all anti-Reagan, we were all politically-aware, we were all anti-war and things like that. These days a lot of the newer bands don't even really talk about that sort of stuff anymore.

  Roger Miret

  War, Band, Stuff

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• The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Vietnam, Movement

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

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• Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Attitude, War

  Ludwig von Mises (2013). “The Theory of Money and Credit”, p.394, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Fighting, Wish

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• No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.

  Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

  Peace, War, Fighting

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