Antiwar Quotes - Page 13

• National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.

  John Taylor of Caroline

  Peace, War, People

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• We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.

  Henry Miller

  War, Common Sense, Shadow

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.115, New Directions Publishing

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• But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?

  Barbara Bush

  Beautiful, War, Mean

  Interview on "Good Morning America", March 18, 2003.

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• Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.

  John T. Flynn

  Peace, War, Government

  John Thomas Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”, p.213, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Peace, War, Home

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• I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

  Joseph Heller

  Peace, War, Government

  1961 Milo Minderbinder. Catch-22, ch.24.

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• We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?

  Ramsay MacDonald

  Peace, War, Taken

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• We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic.

  Justin Raimondo

  Peace, War, Patriotic

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• Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

  Karl Hess

  Peace, War, Apology

  "Why Americans Hate Politics" by E.J. Dionne, Jr., Simon & Schuster, (p. 267), 2004.

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• I am not against all wars-just whichever is current.

  Ken Gillespie

  Peace, War, Currents

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• Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

  James Bryce

  Country, Peace, War

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• Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Peace, War, Men

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

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• The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

  Garet Garrett

  Peace, War, Blow

  Garet Garrett (1965). “The people's pottage”, Caxton Printers

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• With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.

  Garet Garrett

  Country, Peace, War

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• Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

  Hermann Hesse

  Country, War, Enemy

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• When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

  H. L. Mencken

  Peace, War, Limits

  "The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations" edited by Antony Jay, 1996.

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• Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

  Garet Garrett

  Peace, War, Want

  Garet Garrett (1955). “The American Story”, p.393, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

  Horace

  Peace, War, Fall

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• It is not only the living who are killed in war.

  Isaac Asimov

  Veterans Day, Peace, War

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• We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.

  Jacobo Timerman

  Peace, War, Madmen

  Jacobo Timerman (1982). “The longest war: Israel in Lebanon”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision.

  James Bovard

  Peace, War, President

  James Bovard (2015). “Attention Deficit Democracy”, p.8, Macmillan

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• It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

  Voltaire

  Peace, War, Mind

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• It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Soldier, Enemy

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• The point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything ... that's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody is going to be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that's the one you're not allowed to talk about.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Mean, Media

  WBAI Radio Interview, January 1992.

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• The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million people have been killed in armed conflict. Most of them were civilians.

  George Monbiot

  War, People, Generations

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