Quotes on Antiwar

War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.