Antiwar Quotes - Page 29

• These people are trying to shake the will of the Iraqi citizens, and they want us to leave...I think the world would be better off if we did leave.

  George W. Bush

  Peace, War, Thinking

  Remarks at Ask President Bush Event in Derry, New Hampshire, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 20, 2004.

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• If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Race

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense.

  Randolph Bourne

  War, Government, Groups

  Randolph Silliman Bourne (1965). “The world of Randolph Bourne: an anthology edited”

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  It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.

  Stonewall Jackson

  War, Evil, Looks

  Stonewall Jackson's comments to his pastor (April 1861) as quoted in Mary Anna Jackson "Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by His Widow, Mary Anna Jackson" (p. 141), 1895.

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• The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

  Charley Reese

  Peace, War, Thinking

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• In all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the disastrous effects of a long war can realize the supreme importance of rapidity in bringing it to a close.

  Sun Tzu

  Country, Peace, War

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• The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

  Charley Reese

  Peace, War, Truth Is

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• Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously - and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.

  George W. Bush

  War, Taken, Ambition

  "Bush: Islamic Radicalism Doomed to Fail". edition.cnn.com. October 06, 2005.

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• Our nation is somewhat sad, but we're angry. There's a certain level of blood lust, but we won't let it drive our reaction. We're steady, clear-eyed and patient, but pretty soon we'll have to start displaying scalps.

  George W. Bush

  Peace, War, Blood

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• One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, War, Support

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• We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

  Charley Reese

  Peace, War, Government

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• Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their screams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq - mostly volunteers in a poverty draft from small towns and poor urban neighborhoods - are victims just as much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them to die for a victory that will never be theirs.

  Arundhati Roy

  Children, War, Fighting

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• The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Liberty

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

  Thomas Paine

  Peace, Truth, War

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.284

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• War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.

  Harry Elmer Barnes

  Peace, War, Problem

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• I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Peace, Hate, War

  Sermon in New York on Armistice Day 1933, in Secret of Victorious Living (1934) p. 97

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• Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

  Charles V of France

  Peace, War, Names

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• War is a bankruptcy of policy

  Hans von Seeckt

  War, Policy, Bankruptcy

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• Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, War, Men

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• War is a defeat for humanity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, War, Humanity

  Message for the celebration of XXXIII World Day of Peace, w2.vatican.va. December 8, 1999.

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• It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.

  Benjamin Tucker

  War, Church, Corruption

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1970). “Liberty”

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• Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.

  Mary Robinson

  War, Rights, Today

  Mary Robinson (2010). “A Voice for Human Rights”, p.9, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Mean, Men

  Alexander Hamilton, Morton J. Frisch (1985). “Selected writings and speeches of Alexander Hamilton”, Aei Pr

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• Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, War, Problem

  Message on the World Day of Peace, w2.vatican.va. December 08, 1999.

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• Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, House

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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