Antiwar Quotes

• 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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• War is the ultimate tool of politics.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Peace, War, Tools

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

  George W. Bush

  Love, Peace, War

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• Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and so we think that our broadcast is a support to this antiwar movement.

  Hanoi Hannah

  Thinking, Building Up, Support

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• Nothing good ever comes of violence.

  Martin Luther

  War, Violence, Anti War

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• Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, War, World

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• No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Peace, War, Army

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• Politics is the womb in which war develops.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Peace, War, Womb

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.149, Princeton University Press

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• The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

  Albert Camus

  Peace, War, Tyrants

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.101, Vintage

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• The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?

  Bennett Cerf

  Peace, War, Age

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• Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

  Edmund Burke

  Peace, War, Tyrants

  'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' (1791) p. 25

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• I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Kids, Shots

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• We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Community, Three, Felons

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• Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

  Bernard Baruch

  Peace, War, World Destruction

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1946). “United States atomic energy proposals: Statement of the United States policy on control of atomic energy”

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• Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.

  Harry Elmer Barnes

  War, Writing, Emotional

  Harry Elmer Barnes (1980). “Revisionism: A Key to Peace and Other Essays”

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• War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Peace, War, Military

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• Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense! These... tyrants, these red-handed robbers and murderers, the "patriots," while the men who have the courage to stand face to face with them, speak the truth, and fight for their exploited victims - they are [called] the disloyalists and traitors. If this be true, I want to take my place side by side with the traitors in this fight.

  Eugene V. Debs

  War, Fighting, Men

  Eugene V. Debs' speech he gave across the street from a jail, where he had just visited three socialists who were in prison for opposing the draft, June 1918.

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• The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

  David Hume

  Peace, War, Philosophical

  Adam Ferguson, David Hume, David R. Raynor (1982). “Sister Peg: A Pamphlet Hitherto Unknown by David Hume”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• A rational army would run away.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Running, War, Army

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• War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

  Alfred Adler

  Peace, Brother, War

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• War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

  Smedley Butler

  Peace, War, Believe

  "War Is A Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

  Alfred Adler

  Peace, War, Knowing

  Alfred Adler (2002). “The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler, Volume 1: Fundamentals of Individual Psychology and Psychotherapy: the Neurotic Character”, p.89, Alfred Adler Institute

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• The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  War, Winning, Tyrants

  Samuel P. Huntington (1997). “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order”, p.51, Penguin Books India

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• History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

  Abba Eban

  Funny, Sarcastic, War

  Speech in London, 16 Dec. 1970, in The Times 17 Dec. 1970

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• A mind at peace does not engender wars.

  Sophocles

  War, Mind, Doe

  Sophocles, Paul Roche (1991). “The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, Signet

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