Quotes on Anti War

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.