Antiwar Quotes - Page 27

• Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Peace, War, Men

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• Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.

  Laozi

  Peace, War, Fool

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• There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Peace, War, United States

  Noam Chomsky (2002). “Pirates and Emperors, Old and New: International Terrorism in the Real World”, p.122, South End Press

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• War technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism.

  Stan Goff

  Peace, War, Technology

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• Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Government

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

  J. William Fulbright

  Peace, War, America

  "Fulbright: The Dissenter". Book by Haynes Bonner Johnson and Bernard M. Gwertzman, 1968.

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• The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.

  J. William Fulbright

  Peace, War, Government

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• The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Growth

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• The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it.

  James Madison

  Peace, War, Government

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.43, University of Virginia Press

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• It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

  Murray Rothbard

  Peace, War, Pride

  Murray N. Rothbard (2015). “The Ethics of Liberty”, p.196, NYU Press

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• Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Veterans Day, Fighting, Soldier

  U.S. News & World Report, Vol. 110, Issues 5, p. 32, February 11, 1991.

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• War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Peace, War, Games

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.29, Wordsworth Editions

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• War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

  Alexander Berkman

  Peace, War, Stupid

  Alexander Berkman (2010). “Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Self

  A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University

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• Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of beginning it; but it belongs to government alone, when it becomes inevitable.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Christian, War, Responsibility

  "Anna Karenina".

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• War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement

  James Madison

  War, Nurse, President

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.452

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• The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

  James Madison

  Peace, War, Judging

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist: On the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.451

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• No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Peace, War, Lying

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• Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of insane tyrants who hear voices.

  Rodrigue Tremblay

  War, Tyrants, Voice

  Rodrigue Tremblay, Paul Kurtz (2010). “The Code for Global Ethics: Ten Humanist Principles”

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• ...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.

  Murray Rothbard

  Peace, War, Technology

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• During war, the laws are silent.

  Quintus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, War, Law

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• One more such victory and we are undone.

  Pyrrhus of Epirus

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Quoted in Plutarch, Parallel Lives

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• You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.

  Pope Pius XII

  War, Anti War, Loses

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• Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, War, Humanity

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• No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.

  Pat Buchanan

  Peace, War, Play

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