Quotes on Antiwar

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.

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

War is the Health of the State.

It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick.

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.

We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.