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  • Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

    Peace   War   Ubuntu  
    George Orwell's review of the book "The Men I Killed" by Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier in "New Statesman and Nation", August 28, 1937.
  • (I)f France's righteous bloviating against war makes them your Dashboard Saint of International Integrity, it's either because you are sand-poundingly ignorant of how the world works or it's because you think France's self-interest is more important than America's. If the former applies to you, read a book. If it's the latter, maybe you should move there along with Alec Baldwin, Robert Altman, and the rest of the crowd who promised to leave a long time ago. But whatever you do, don't call France's position principled, because that just insults us both.

    War   Integrity   Moving  
  • I think that the best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue. For me the best way to fight against terrorism and extremism... just a simple thing: educate the next generation.

    War   Fighting   Simple  
  • Were aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration.

    Peace   War   Government  
  • It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

    Freedom   Real   War  
    James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.49, University of Virginia Press
  • Drons change the way politicians think about war. You already have society's barriers against war dropping, and now you have a technology that takes the barriers to the ground. We can carry it out without having to deal with some of the consequences of sending our sons and daughters into harm's way.

    Daughter   War   Son  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • On each side of the war against war, hopes soar, hopes dive, hour by hour now. Resignations abound, timetables slip, and the world waits, mesmerised. I'm off to Melbourne to record an arts chat show.

    Art   War   Waiting  
  • It seems to me an utterly futile task to prescribe rules and limitations for the conduct of war. War is not a game; hence one cannot wage war by rules as one would in playing games. Our fight must be against war itself. The masses of people can most effectively fight the institution of war by establishing an organization for the absolute refusal of military service.

    Military   War   Fighting  
    Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.132, Pickle Partners Publishing
  • O, that we who declare war against wars, and acknowledge our trust to be in God only, may walk in the light, and therein examine our foundation and motives in holding onto money! May we look upon our estates, our treasures, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these, our possessions.

    War   Light   House  
  • I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.

    War   Party   Holiday  
    William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.1281, Library of America
  • Liberals in blue states just think that when they look in the mirror and say to themselves "I'm for the environment, I'm for the children, I'm for the gay people, I'm against war," it pits automatically, and the oppressor/oppressed leftist mindset that anyone that would disagree with them isn't conservative, they're crazy. They're Nazis, they're facists, they're evil.

    Children   Crazy   War  
    Source: www.newsbusters.org
  • From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

    War   Years   Government  
    Richard Cobden (1850). “Speeches on Peace, Financial Reform, Colonial Reform, and Other Subjects: Delivered During 1849”, p.103
  • To be a mother is a great treasure. Mothers, in their unconditional and sacrificial love for their children, are the antidote to individualism; they are the greatest enemies against war.

    Mother   Children   War  
  • I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.

    War   Mets   Against War  
    Quoted in N.Y. Times Magazine, 10 Feb. 1946
  • Being against the military because you are against war is like being against the Fire Department because you are against fire.

    Military   War   Fire  
  • Our country is now at war and the only way out is forward. I would not change one word I have spoken against war but that is no longer the issue. We must now stand together.

    Country   War   Science  
    David Starr Jordan (1922). “The days of a man: being memories of a naturalist, teacher, and minor prophet of democracy”
  • We need to organize ourselves and protest against existing order - against war, against economic and sexual exploitation, against racism, etc. But to organize ourselves in such a way that means correspond to the ends, and to organize ourselves in such a way as to create kind of human relationship that should exist in future society. That would mean to organize ourselves without centralize authority, without charismatic leader, in a way that represents in miniature the ideal of the future egalitarian society.

    War   Mean   Order  
  • War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

    Country   Money   War  
    George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Facing unpleasant facts, 1937-1939”
  • Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

    George Washington (1810). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States”, p.17
  • We've never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.

    War   Iran   Desire  
  • The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

    Freedom   War   Mean  
  • The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

    War   Men   Problem  
  • I have received a commission to make a poster against war. That is a task that makes me happy. Some may say a thousand times that this is not pure art.... but as long as I can work, I want to be effective with my art.

    Art   War   Long  
    "Letters of Friendship and Acquaintance" [Briefe der Freundschaft und Begegnungen] edited by Hans Kollwitz, p. 95; cited in "Käthe Kollwitz: Woman and Artist" by Martha Kearns, (p. 172), 1976.
  • Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music.

    Song   War   Thinking  
  • The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions.

    War   Animal   Long  
    Jon Wynne-Tyson (1972). “The Civilised Alternative: A Pattern for Protest”
  • I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is needed, and violence will not really change anything: at most it will only transfer power from one set of bull-headed authorities to another.

    Peace   War   Differences  
  • Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.

    Military   War   Cutting  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A 'neutral' position is tantamount to support of imperialism.

    War   Struggle   Support  
    Resolution on the Antiwar Congress of the London Bureau, July 1936.
  • The vast majority of the peoples of the world are against war and against aggression. If they make their wishes known and effective, war can be stopped. It all depends on whether they are willing to make the effort necessary for the purpose. For, that it will require an effort, no one who considers the history of the world on these subjects can doubt.

    War   Effort   Doubt  
    "The Future of Civilization". Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. June 1, 1938.
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