Quotes on Anti War

"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.

No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.

You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

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.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.

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.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Who can sum up all the ills the women of a nation suffer from war? They have all of the misery and none of the glory; nothing to mitigate their weary waiting and watching for the loved ones who return no more.

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe.

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.