Quotes on Anti War

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

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

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.

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.

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

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