Antiwar Quotes - Page 19

• There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

  Ralph Bunche

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  62 Copy quote

• Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

  Marquis de Sade

  Peace, War, Principles

  10 Copy quote

• Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

  Marquis de Sade

  Peace, War, Technique

  7 Copy quote

• Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

  W. L. George

  Peace, Hate, Military

  17 Copy quote

• War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.

  Ken Gillespie

  Peace, War, Boys

  7 Copy quote

• A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

  William Ralph Inge

  Trust, Peace, War

  Philosophy of Plotinus Lecture 22 (1923)

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I hate it when they say, �He gave his life for his country.� They don�t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.

  Gene La Rocque

  Country, Peace, Hate

  7 Copy quote

• If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

  Louis Lecoin

  Peace, War, Being Real

  11 Copy quote

• We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  26 Copy quote

• Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens.

  Charles Tilly

  Money, War, Mean

  Charles Tilly, Arthur L. Stinchcombe (1997). “Roads from Past to Future”, p.149, Rowman & Littlefield

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

  Serj Tankian

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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

  66 Copy quote

  Show source

• We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

  George W. Bush

  Peace, War, Differences

  United Nations General Assembly Address, delivered 21 September 2004, New York, NY

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Country, Sweet

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, British, Interest

  4 Copy quote

• Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

  Thomas Hobbes

  War, Two, Hype

  Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 13 (1651)

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• . And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

  Herbert Hoover

  Peace, War, Sorrow

  "Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945".

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Order

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.163, Algora Publishing

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

  Immanuel Kant

  Peace, War, Evil

  Carl Joachim Friedrich, Immanuel Kant (1969). “Inevitable peace”, Greenwood Pub Group

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought.

  Helen Keller

  Peace, War, Battle

  Helen Keller's Speech at Carnegie Hall, New York City, under the auspices of the Women's Peace Party and the Labor Forum, January 5, 1916.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

  John F. Kennedy

  Christian, Peace, War

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.163, Best Books on

  132 Copy quote

  Show source

• Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Victory

  Speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations, September 25, 1961.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Negative

  15 Copy quote

• Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Peace, War, Individual

  Ulysses S. Grant (2007). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

  Jim Garrison

  Peace, War, Names

  Playboy interview, October, 1967.

  69 Copy quote

  Show source

• War remains the decisive human failure.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Peace, War, Humans

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2004). “The Economics of Innocent Fraud”, Penguin Hardcover

  7 Copy quote

  Show source