Quotes on Anti War

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody else shall think, speak, and act together. And you fix your adoring gaze upon the State, with a truly filial look, as upon the Father of the flock.

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

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

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

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.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Tis not, 'my country right or wrong'; tis, 'my country, that which is right to be kept right, that which is wrong to be set right'

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.