Quotes on Antiwar

The point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything ... that's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody is going to be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that's the one you're not allowed to talk about.

I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.

Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.