Antiwar Quotes - Page 28

• The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

  Murray Rothbard

  Peace, War, Glory

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• Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.

  Olavo de Carvalho

  War, Corruption, Crime

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• All government wars are unjust.

  Murray Rothbard

  Peace, War, Government

  As quoted in an interview in "Reason" Magazine, February 1973.

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• Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?

  Wally Herger

  Peace, War, Blood

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• The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches in the other, pretending to sell fire insurance.

  Rodrigue Tremblay

  War, Fire, Hands

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• The world should take notice when someone...with a fanatic mind and with powerful means, receives his marching orders from Heaven.

  Rodrigue Tremblay

  Peace, Powerful, War

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• I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Organizer, Nationality

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.63, Beacon Press

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• Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

  Robert Higgs

  Peace, War, President

  Robert Higgs (2005). “Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11”, Independent Inst

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• This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.

  Robert Kennedy

  War, Soul, Violence

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• When we fill our souls up with creativity, artistry and intelligence ...we have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads to destruction.

  Rick DellaRatta

  Peace, War, Creativity

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• Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.

  Richard J. Maybury

  Peace, War, Rome

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• One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Peace, War, Force

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• To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Freedom Of Speech

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.146, Cornell University Press

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• Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  Peace, War, Party

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• We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Army

  Thomas Jefferson (1976). “Thomas Jefferson, revolutionary philosopher: a selection of writings”, Barron's Educational Series

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• Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they'll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  War, Believe, Taken

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• Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Peace, War, Blame

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• War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

  William McKinley

  War, Agency, Presidential

  William McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.20, tredition

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• Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Respect, Peace, Freedom

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• Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

  Gregory Bateson

  Peace, War, Moving

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• Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

  Thomas Merton

  Peace, War, Sacrifice

  Thomas Merton (2010). “The Nonviolent Alternative”, p.35, Macmillan

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• The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

  Hannah Arendt

  War, Practice, World

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

  Hannah Arendt

  Peace, War, People

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• The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Roots

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• All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

  John Locke

  Peace, War, Independent

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.191

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