Quotes on Anti War

[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which is precious to a man-of the chief human property, rational freedom-and become submissive, machine-like implements of murder in the hands of their organized hierarchic authorities.

Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough if it were simply defensive, but it is also aggressive . . . Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part . . . Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.

The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the individual, "crime".

Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but on the whole of good intentions which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made not usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies pursued by good men usually passionately convinced that they are right.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

Laws are silent in time of war.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

The more laws, the less justice.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

Freedom is not nurtured by nations preparing for war.

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.