Antiwar Quotes - Page 11

• In fact, I was in a lab that was a hundred percent funded by the Pentagon, and it was one of the centers of the organized antiwar resistance movement.

  Noam Chomsky

  Movement, Labs, Resistance

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother’s Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, War, Loss

  "Mother’s Day for Peace: A Dramatic Reading of Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 8, 2009.

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• The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Philosophy, War

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• You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.

  Will Rogers

  Peace, War, America

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.19, Rowman & Littlefield

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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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• Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Believe, Rights

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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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• There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.

  Robin Cook

  Peace, War, Iraq

  "Iraqi PM: 'Terrorists pouring in'", www.cnn.com. September 20, 2004.

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• Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Fighting, Wish

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• If you sacrifice liberty for security, you will lose both.

  Ron Paul

  War, Sacrifice, Liberty

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• Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Conflict

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

  Francis John McConnell

  Peace, War, Patriotism

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• Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

  Richard Cobden

  Peace, War, Commerce

  Richard Cobden (1854). “Russia and the Eastern Question”, p.33

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• ...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Corporations

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• To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, War, Soldier

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• ...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.

  Robert Higgs

  Peace, War, People

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• We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.

  Martin Luther King III

  Peace, War, Terrorism

  "Our Twisted Politics of Grief" by Norman Solomon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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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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• All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

  Frank Chodorov

  Peace, War, Political

  Frank Chodorov, Charles H. Hamilton (1980). “Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.

  Robert Higgs

  Peace, War, Lying

  Robert Higgs (2005). “Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11”, Independent Inst

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• Many of the points made by the antiwar movement have been consciously assimilated by the Pentagon and its lawyers and advisers. Precision weaponry is good in itself, but its ability to discriminate is improving and will continue to improve. Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Troops, Bombs, Movement

  Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5066, NYU Press

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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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• War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Sweet, Peace, War

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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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• 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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