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• War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization

  Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

  War, Civilization, Filthy

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• The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

  A. J. Muste

  War, Thinking, Lessons

  A. J. Muste's statement of 1941, as quoted in Howard Zinn "A People's History" (p. 416), 1980, and later quoted in Howard Zinn "The Twentieth Century: A People's History" (p. 159), May 9, 1984.

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• War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

  Germaine Greer

  War, Faces, Defeat

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized man.

  King Hussein I

  Block, War, Gun

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• The most important thing today is to stop US wars.

  Yuri Kochiyama

  War, Important, Today

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• The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Self, Vision

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• Everything you do in war is a crime in peace

  Helen McCloy

  War, Anti War, Crime

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• Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but on the whole of good intentions which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made not usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies pursued by good men usually passionately convinced that they are right.

  Norman Angell

  War, Men, Knowing

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. June 12, 1935.

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• Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

  Colman McCarthy

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

  Louis Lecoin

  Peace, War, Being Real

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• The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

  Ellen Key

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

  Max Lerner

  War, Way, Energy

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• A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.

  Livy

  Peace, Victory, Anti War

  "The History of Rome".

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• I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"

  Eve Merriam

  Mother, Dream, Veterans Day

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• It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

  Albert J. Nock

  Money, War, States

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• The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Civilization, World

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• I agree with Pres. Barack Obama, Iraqis need a political solution. No war in Iraq!

  Barbara Lee

  Military, War, Iraq

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• In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

  Herodotus

  Peace, Father, Military

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• When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, War, Humanity

  "Letters to Atticus" (1st century B.C.), as quoted in "Words on war: military quotations from ancient times to the present", book by Jay M. Shafritz, 1990.

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• You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Fighting, Odds Against You

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Peace, Military, War

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• The first casualty when war comes is truth.

  Hiram Johnson

  Peace, War, Firsts

  1917 Speech, US Senate.

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• Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe. The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation. Germany needs peace and desires peace!

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Flower, Simple

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• I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, People

  Letter to William Charles Jarvis, 28 Sept. 1820

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