Antiwar Quotes - Page 26

• War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

  Sophocles

  Peace, War, Men

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• People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people.

  Frederic C. Howe

  Spring, War, People

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• Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

  Bob Dylan

  War, Democracy, Ruling The World

  Song: Union Sundown, Album: Infidels, 1983

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• In modern political society it is probably a fact that national leadership can heighten foreign crises to the point where war becomes almost inevitable and public approval, at least for a time, automatic.

  Arthur Ekirch

  War, Political, Facts

  Arthur Alphonse Ekirch (1966). “Ideas, ideals, and American diplomacy: a history of their growth and interaction”

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• Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

  Elias Canetti

  Peace, War, Want

  Elias Canetti (1962). “Crowds and power: Masse und Macht]”

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• All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Suffering

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Real, War

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.296, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G.W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear.

  Sherman Alexie

  Kings, Book, Reading

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• The responsibility for the risks we posed to others in some of our most extreme actions in those underground years never leaves my thoughts for long. The antiwar movement in all its commitment, all its sacrifice and determination, could not stop the violence unleashed against Vietnam. And therein lies cause for real regret.

  Bill Ayers

  Determination, Regret, Lying

  "The Real Bill Ayers". Article by William Ayers, www.nytimes.com. December 05, 2008.

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• I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, War, Photographer

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• There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

  Jimmy Carter

  Peace, War, Differences

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.141, Three Rivers Press

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• The only defensible war is a war of defense.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Peace, War, Defense

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• Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Stopping, Way

  "Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Peace, War, Needs

  "Viewpoint: War would be insane" by Noam Chomsky, news.bbc.co.uk. February 12, 2003.

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• To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

  Noam Chomsky

  Peace, War, Office

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• When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

  Winston Churchill

  Wise, War, Winning

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Closing the Ring”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, War, Patriotic

  Winston Churchill (2013). “The Second World War”, p.565, A&C Black

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• The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

  Ramsey Clark

  Peace, War, World

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• My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.

  Ella Baker

  Strong, War, People

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• In the ’60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women’s rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn’t just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time.

  George Clooney

  Song, Growing Up, Rights

  "George Clooney on Good Night and Good Luck". Interview with Rob Nelson, www.motherjones.com. November 2005.

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• From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

  Denis Diderot

  Peace, War, Tyrants

  "Essai sur le Mérite de la Vertu". A translation and adaptation of "Inquiry concerning Virtue or Merit" by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, 1745.

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• The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

  William O. Douglas

  Religious, War, Political

  William O. Douglas (1954). “An Almanac of Liberty”

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• All the gods are dead except the god of war.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Peace, War, Anti War

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, War, People

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• After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Peace, War, Enemy

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