Memorable Anti-War Quotes

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"The greatest destroyer of peace today is the military structure of the world."
A. J. Muste
"The soldier's life is to die; the soldier's duty is to live for the cause of peace."
Philip K. Dick
"Let us not forget that the greatest crime is not to fight, but to fight for the wrong cause."
Mahatma Gandhi
"All war is based on deception."
Sun Tzu
"If we do not end war, war will end us."
H.G. Wells
"The wars of the future will be fought with ideas."
Barbara W. Tuchman
"War: a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don’t massacre each other."
Paul Valéry
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"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
Peter Drucker
"There are many paths to peace. Regrettably, war is the one most often chosen."
Anonymous
"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
Carl von Clausewitz
"Every war is a symptom of a failure of national will."
T. C. Fry
"We make war that we may live in peace."
Aristotle
"The only casualties in this war are the victims of our silence."
Dee Hock
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
Mahatma Gandhi
"War is hell."
William Tecumseh Sherman
"I think a lot of people are afraid of peace and a world without war, but I would say history has proved that a world without war is possible."
Jimi Hendrix
"Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later."
Benjamin Franklin
"I am not in favor of eliminating all wars, but I am in favor of eliminating wars that could have been negotiated."
Kurt Vonnegut
"War does not determine who is right – only who is left."
Bertrand Russell
"There is no path to peace. Peace is the path."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government."
Martin Luther King Jr.
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"All we are saying is give peace a chance."
John Lennon
"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."
Jeannette Rankin
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
Abraham Lincoln
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."
George Washington
"What if the people of the world just said, 'No more war'?"
Cesar Chavez
"Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us."
Jawaharlal Nehru
"We must not allow the minority to govern the majority."
Albert Schweitzer
"I opposed the conflict in Vietnam and Iraq, and I'm an opponent of war in general."
Ron Paul
"We will not have peace by afterthought."
James Wilson
"I would rather have peace than war."
Thomas Jefferson
"Our generation has had no great war, no great depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives."
Chuck Palahniuk
"I am not only a pacifist, but a militant pacifist. I will not be a coward, I will not honor any war."
A.J. Muste
"War is a failure of diplomacy."
John F. Kennedy
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"To be happy at home is the ultimate aim of all human endeavor."
Victor Hugo
"The causes of war are often unknown but its effects are always disastrous."
James A. Garfield
"War is what happens when language fails."
Margaret Atwood
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
Ernest Hemingway
"All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal."
John Steinbeck
"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"War, in some ways, is an easier task than peace."
Jared Diamond
"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world: my own government."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"War makes thieves and peace makes honest men."
George Herbert
"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."
Henry C. Link
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
Indira Gandhi
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"War is only a coward's escape from the problems of peace."
Thomas Mann
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
George S. Patton
"War does not determine who is right — only who is left."
Bertrand Russell
"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."
Howard Zinn
"I think war is a dangerous and terrible game. All war is a game of loss."
Henry Miller
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
G.K. Chesterton
"It is better to oppose the evil in the world than to stand before it in silent acceptance."
Arundhati Roy
"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
Ernest Hemingway
"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"A soldier is a man who sacrifices his life for his country. A war is a conflict fought by those who promise to defend it."
Alan Paton
"It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace."
Aristide Briand
"What is a war? It is a thing that can end, can destroy, can take; but it cannot build, it cannot create."
Hazrat Ali
"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself."
Nelson Mandela
"The great object of the war is the abolition of war."
William Howard Taft
"We can none of us see very far in advance. The future is all on the knees of the gods."
Alice Walker
"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way."
A.J. Muste
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Humanity is not a spectator. We all must engage in the struggle against war."
Hillary Clinton
"If we don’t end war, war will end us."
H.G. Wells
"The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war."
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
"What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends."
Mark Twain
"It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it."
Vince Lombardi
"War is merely the continuation of policy by other means."
Carl von Clausewitz
"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The opposite of war is not peace; it's creation."
Jonathan Larson
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
Bertrand Russell
"When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"The first casualty when war comes is truth."
Hiram Johnson
"We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Albert Einstein
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
Albert Einstein
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
George Orwell
"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."
José Narosky
"There is no way to peace, peace is the way."
A.J. Muste
"War is just a racket... I believe in adequate and prompt military cover for those who ask for it. The trouble with the war is its stupidity and viciousness... Young men are being sent to die for money and I think that is a crime."
Smedley Butler
"Any violent act against a nation can only be seen as an act of war, and, therefore, should not be tolerated by the world."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."
Aeschylus
"The idea of war is very much like the idea of a dandelion: a little bit of chaos, a bit of beauty, but ultimately it’s a weed that needs to be uprooted."
Unknown
"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."
John F. Kennedy
"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."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."
Thomas Mann
"To secure peace is to prepare for war."
Carl von Clausewitz
"The greatest form of patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably."
James Baldwin
"The best way to get rid of war is to get rid of politicians."
Alfred Adler
"If we don't end war, war will end us."
H.G. Wells
"War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory."
Georges Clemenceau
"The more you know about your enemy, the more you’ll be able to see the humanity in them."
Brian K. Vaughan
"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how justified, it is never a good."
G.K. Chesterton
"The soldier’s main enemy is not the enemy he encounters on the battlefield, but the military hierarchy that sends him to war."
J.M. Barrie
"Peace begins with a smile."
Mother Teresa
"Every war is lost by both sides."
Mikhail Bakunin
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