Antiwar Quotes - Page 15

• I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it?

  Lesley Stahl

  Children, War, Mean

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  I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.

  Madeleine Albright

  War, Thinking, Economic Sanctions

  "60 Minutes", May 12, 1996.

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• And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.

  Aristotle

  Art, War, Long

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.68, Aristotle

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• The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

  Immanuel Kant

  War, Evil People, Tyranny

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• Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.

  George Washington

  War, Character, Self

  George Washington (1856). “The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States”, p.241

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• There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  War, Sacrifice, Boys

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Animal Dreams: A Novel”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  Peace, War, Party

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• The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.

  Hugo Black

  Peace, War, Government

  "New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713". Concurring opinion, 1971.

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• I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the blood or see those without limbs or eyes. It was not til I read Hersey's Hiroshima that I realized what bomber pilots do.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Eye, Blood

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• Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Peace, War, Hatred

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• All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.

  John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

  Peace, War, Want

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• In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  Peace, War, Party

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• [War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Concern

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• Force is the weapon of the weak.

  Ammon Hennacy

  Peace, War, Weapons

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• Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, 'War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.'

  Immanuel Kant

  War, Men, Order

  Immanuel Kant (2007). “Perpetual Peace”, p.36, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part with grave gladness to die if need be, a willing sacrifice, thankful to give life for what is dearer than life, and happy that even by death in war he is serving the cause of peace. But if a war be undertaken for the most righteous end, before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  War, Sacrifice, Men

  Charles Eliot Norton (1913). “Letters of Charles Eliot Norton”

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• Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic.

  Ron Paul

  War, Tactics, Terror

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

  Tacitus

  Peace, War, Crime

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• Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, War, Work

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• This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, Honesty, War

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798”, p.219, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, People

  Letter to William Charles Jarvis, 28 Sept. 1820

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• They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretarry of state”, p.288

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• I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Movement, Politics, Grassroots

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• If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Truth, War, Asking Questions

  Gravity's Rainbow episode 28 (1973)

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