Anti War Quotes - Page 29

• I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn't attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it's not about waging a war against everybody's disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mother, War, Disease

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I say openly that I am an anti-war person, with the point being, show me some reason not to be against this war. You have to be sort of asleep at the switch not to be critical of it. And the parallel between one quagmire we went through in Vietnam and the one we're in now is clear for everybody to see.

  Seymour Hersh

  War, Quagmire, Vietnam

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I had begun what I thought might be a career in social work. I was married and deeply involved in the anti-war movement. I thought I'd go about saving the world one person at a time. I worked with kids, teenagers mostly, in neighborhood centers, on the streets, and eventually in a drop-in center.

  John Dufresne

  War, Teenager, Kids

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.

  Andrew Sullivan

  War, Movement, Hussein

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• Being anti-war in Hollywood was an act of bravery on the order of the keynote speaker at a PLO dinner making jokes about Ariel Sharon.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Order, Bravery

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”, p.317, Crown Forum

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• Now you may like the images of long-haired hippies running in the streets throwing tear gas canisters, but we didn't end the war. And that's what we set out to do. What was not ended by the anti-war movement was ended by the Vietnamese. That's our shame.

  Bill Ayers

  Running, War, Hippie

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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• I'm a child of the '60s, I came of age then. I went to a couple of demonstrations, and then in the late '60s when the Vietnam anti-war movement grew as the Vietnam War was heating up, I became very involved in that.

  Simi Linton

  Children, Couple, War

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• Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean was all smiles, well smirks, after picking up the endorsement of former Vice President Al Gore at a rally in Harlem ... Gore went on to praise Dean for taking a tough anti-war stance before the invasion of Iraq and he praised Dean supporters in hopes that will ease his concerns over lack of foreign policy experience, and his lack of support among blacks and Latinos, and his hot temperament, and perceived arrogance, and policy flip-flops, and campaign glitches. Well, there's a lot going on here.

  Jon Stewart

  War, Iraq, Support

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• No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.

  Pat Buchanan

  Peace, War, Play

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• The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement

  Naomi Klein

  War, Democracy, Movement

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• If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Fate

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to kill people and to destroy.

  Thomas S. Power

  Peace, Jobs, Military

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• In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Peace, Military, War

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• All government wars are unjust.

  Murray Rothbard

  Peace, War, Government

  As quoted in an interview in "Reason" Magazine, February 1973.

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• One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Peace, War, Force

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• The world is starving for American leadership. But America has an anti-war president.

  John Boehner

  War, America, President

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. March 29, 2015.

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• I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Organizer, Nationality

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.63, Beacon Press

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• There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Peace, War, Lying

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• The world should take notice when someone...with a fanatic mind and with powerful means, receives his marching orders from Heaven.

  Rodrigue Tremblay

  Peace, Powerful, War

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• Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica - they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  War, Rap, Kids

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• Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.

  George Orwell

  Real, War, Practice

  George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

  William Ralph Inge

  Trust, Peace, War

  Philosophy of Plotinus Lecture 22 (1923)

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• One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

  Howard Zinn

  Peace, War, Expression

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.236, Seven Stories Press

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• Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs peace to evolve.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Peace, War, America

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• Tis not, 'my country right or wrong'; tis, 'my country, that which is right to be kept right, that which is wrong to be set right'

  Carl Schurz

  Country, War, Antiwar

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