Quotes on Anti War

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may endeavor to make us enemies. By living in peace, we can help and prosper one another; by waging war, we can kill and destroy many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that.

Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.

Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

There's no such thing as an anti-war film.

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.