Quotes on Anti War

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don’t know and have compassion for them at the same time?

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.