Antiwar Quotes - Page 20

• There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

  Smedley Butler

  Peace, War, Home

  "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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• The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Peace, War, Fall

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• War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Peace, War, Fighting

  "Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty" by Emma Goldman, chapter five of Anarchism and Other Essays, 1911.

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• War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Mean, Politics

  Carl von Clausewitz (1943). “On war: Translated from the German by O.J. Matthijs Jolles”

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• In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Fear, War, Fire

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.607, Best Books on

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• There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

  Havelock Ellis

  Peace, War, Achieve

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• Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

  Oriana Fallaci

  Peace, War, Patient

  Oriana Fallaci (1972). “Nothing, and So be it”

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• Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

  Sigmund Freud

  Peace, War, Civilization

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• Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

  Sigmund Freud

  Peace, War, Men

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.40, Courier Dover Publications

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• A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

  Sigmund Freud

  Peace, War, Violence

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Angela Richards (1971). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

  Robert E. Lee

  Peace, War, Two Sides

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• The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

  Walter Lippmann

  Peace, Wall, War

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• I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

  Harold Pinter

  War, Thinking, Criminals

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. December 22, 2002.

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• You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

  Roman Polanski

  War, People, Upset

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

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• War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

  Colin Powell

  Peace, Military, War

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, Peace, War

  Ronald Reagan's Remarks at the National Conference of the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, www.reaganfoundation.org. March 30, 1981.

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• Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Rights

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• Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

  Will Rogers

  Peace, War, Fall

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Responsibility

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.442, Simon and Schuster

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• Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

  Marquis de Sade

  Peace, War, Order

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• Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Peace, War, Community

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• A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, Peace, War

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• War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

  Ron Paul

  Money, War, Historical

  "Conscription – The Terrible Price of War". www.antiwar.com. November 26, 2003.

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• An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

  Thomas Paine

  Peace, War, 4th Of July

  "Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion".

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• War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

  Benito Mussolini

  Military, War, Fighting

  Encyclopedia Italiana "The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism" (1932)

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