Quotes on Antiwar

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

A mind at peace does not engender wars.

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits

War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.

After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.

I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment - and yet - I can't help it - I enjoy every second of it.

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business. And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press