Antiwar Quotes - Page 24

• Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

  Henry Ford

  War, Fire, Doe

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.165, 谷月社

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• My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain international questions cannot be discussed; it may be that they have to be fought out. But the fighting never settles the question. It only gets the participants around to a frame of mind where they will agree to discuss what they were fighting about.

  Henry Ford

  War, Fighting, Civilization

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.165, 谷月社

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• Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.

  George Washington

  Military, War, Movement

  George Washington (1847). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. II. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American revolution: (v. 3) June, 1775-July, 1776. (v. 4) July, 1776-July] 1777. (v. 5) July, 1777-July, 1778. (v. 6) July, 1778-March, 1780. (v. 7) March, 1780-April, 1781. (v. 8) April, 1781-December, 1783”, p.201

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• I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars.

  Barack Obama

  War, Dumb

  Speech Opposing the War in Iraq at Federal Plaza, delivered 2 October 2002, Chicago, Illinois

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• Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

  Kin Hubbard

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Kin Hubbard, David S. Hawes (1995). “The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin's Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe's Neighbors, His Almanack, Comic Drawings”, p.139, Indiana University Press

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• War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in ourselves, there are bound to be national and racial antagonisms, the childish quarreling over ideologies, the multiplication of soldiers, the saluting of flags, and all the many brutalities that go to create organized murder.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  War, Soldier, Everyday

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• War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

  Smedley Butler

  Peace, War, Racket

  Smedley Butler, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell (2015). “War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading”, p.5, The Forlorn Press

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• The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

  Aldous Huxley

  War, History, Facts

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics?

  William Blum

  Military, War, Abortion

  William Blum (2014). “America's Deadliest Export: Democracy – The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else”, p.170, Zed Books Ltd.

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• Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways. The first is to ruin them; the second, for the conqueror to go and reside there in person; and the third is to allow them to continue to live under their own laws, subject to a regular tribute, and to create in them a government of a few, who will keep the country friendly to the conqueror

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Country, War, Government

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• Until we go through it ourselves, until our people cower in the shelters of New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere while the buildings collapse overhead and burst into flames, and dead bodies hurtle about and, when it is over for the day or the night, emerge in the rubble to find some of their dear ones mangled, their homes gone, their hospitals, churches, schools demolished - only after that gruesome experience will we realize what we are inflicting on the people of Indochina.

  William L. Shirer

  New York, War, Home

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• People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

  Stonewall Jackson

  War, People, Events

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• There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland.

  George W. Bush

  War, President, Homeland

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• A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

  Alexander Cockburn

  War, Self, Deception

  New Statesman and Society (Magazine), February 8, 1991.

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• After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.

  Salman Rushdie

  War, Long, People

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• We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

  H. H. Asquith

  Strong, War, Fighting

  H. H. Asquith's Address to the House of Commons on the declaration of war with Germany, api.parliament.uk. August 6, 1914.

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• I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

  George W. Bush

  Peace, War, Stupid

  Speech at Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C., June 18, 2002.

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• The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government.

  John Adams

  Peace, Real, War

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• In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

  James Reston, Jr.

  Peace, War, Common Sense

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• It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Freedom, War, Patriotic

  "Ladies' Home Journal" Magazine, May 1958.

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  Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

  James Bryce

  Country, Memorial Day, Peace

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• Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Peace, War

  "Questions sur les Miracles". Publication by Voltaire, 1765.

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• Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.

  Yochai Benkler

  Movement, Analyzing, Weathermen

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• I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.

  Mark Boal

  War, Thinking, Way

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• In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

  U Thant

  War, Loser, Modern

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