Quotes on Anti War

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

I am the harvest of man's stupidity. I am the fruit of the holocaust. I prayed like you to survive, but look at me now. It is over for us who are dead, but you must struggle, and will carry the memories all your life. People back home will wonder why you can't forget.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.