Anti War Quotes - Page 9

• In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?

  Yoko Ono

  War, Thinking, Vietnam

  "Just imagine". Interview with Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 03, 2001.

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• War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Peace, War, Games

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.29, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

  Albert Camus

  Wisdom, Peace, Jobs

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• A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  'Sebastian Melmoth' (1905) p. 12. Oscariana (1910) p. 8

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• Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, War, Problem

  Message on the World Day of Peace, w2.vatican.va. December 08, 1999.

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• War is a defeat for humanity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, War, Humanity

  Message for the celebration of XXXIII World Day of Peace, w2.vatican.va. December 8, 1999.

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• America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

  John Quincy Adams

  Peace, War, America

  "Speech of July 4, 1821". John Quincy Adams " The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotation. Hugh Rawson and Margaret Miner. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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• I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Peace, Hate, War

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• Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Lying

  Nobel lecture as quoted in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, 1974.

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• The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

  Michael Parenti

  Peace, War, Thinking

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• War would end if the dead could return.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Peace, Military, War

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• The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

  Mark Twain

  War, Lying, Men

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• During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

  Howard Thurman

  Peace, War, Hatred

  Howard Thurman (2012). “Jesus and the Disinherited”, p.74, Beacon Press

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• The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

  Murray Rothbard

  Peace, War, Glory

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• All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

  Frank Herbert

  War, Government, Personality

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.60, Penguin

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• Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

  Unknown

  Truth, War, Lying

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• Here's the thing. Just because you're pro-troops doesn't mean you're pro-war. And just because you're anti-war doesn't mean you're anti-troops. Just because you don't support the war people think you are anti-troops and you are a bad guy.

  Toby Keith

  War, Mean, Thinking

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

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• We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Wisdom, Peace, War

  Atlantic Monthly Sept. 1935 "Litany for Dictatorships"

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• It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

  Murray Rothbard

  Peace, War, Pride

  Murray N. Rothbard (2015). “The Ethics of Liberty”, p.196, NYU Press

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• An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Peace, War, Empires

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• Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Peace, War, Patriotic

  Douglas MacArthur's address to the Annual Stockholders Sperry Rand Corporation in New York (July 30, 1957) as quoted in "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964" edited by Edward T. Imparato (p. 206), June 14, 2000.

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• The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is to shoot his fellow men. In youth he may have learned the command, 'Thou shalt not kill,' but the ruler takes the boy just as he enters manhood and teaches him that his highest duty is to shoot a bullet through his neighbor's heart - and this, unmoved by passion or feeling or hatred, and without the least regard to right or wrong, but simply because his ruler gives the word.

  Clarence Darrow

  War, Heart, Passion

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• The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.

  Tacitus

  Peace, War, Crime

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  It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.

  Stonewall Jackson

  War, Evil, Looks

  Stonewall Jackson's comments to his pastor (April 1861) as quoted in Mary Anna Jackson "Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by His Widow, Mary Anna Jackson" (p. 141), 1895.

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• We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

  John Galsworthy

  Peace, War, Believe

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.7659, Delphi Classics

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