Quotes on No War

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

We must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resist the White Paper as if there were no war.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

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

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.