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  • War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

    "Warrior" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 2007.
  • All government wars are unjust.

    Peace   War   Government  
    As quoted in an interview in "Reason" Magazine, February 1973.
  • 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.
  • There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

    'Notes for an Oration at Braintree' (Spring 1772)
  • I was hitchhiking to Washington to an anti-war demonstration in 1971, and I was in an accident, and that's how I became disabled; that's how I came into disability, in a sense.

  • War is a defeat for humanity.

    Peace   War   Humanity  
    Message for the celebration of XXXIII World Day of Peace, w2.vatican.va. December 8, 1999.
  • War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.

    War   Hypocrite   Names  
  • In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.

    Peace   War   Army  
    Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.93, University of Chicago Press
  • No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

    Peace   War   Political  
  • War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

    Peace   War   Patriotic  
    Winston Churchill (2013). “The Second World War”, p.565, A&C Black
  • Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

    Peace   War   Wheat  
  • The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

    Peace   Powerful   War  
    Ambrose Bierce (1912). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: Antepenultimata”
  • In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

  • When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

    Peace   War   Limits  
    "The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations" edited by Antony Jay, 1996.
  • "Masters of War" [of Bob Dylan] wasn't peacenik, anti-war stuff. With its minor key and uncompromising final lines ("And I hope that you die/And your death'll come soon/ I will follow your casket/ In the pale afternoon...") this was a previously unknown hybrid of caustic political commentary and punk rock, which itself wouldn't be invented for another decade or so.

    War   Keys   Rocks  
    Source: www.thedailybeast.com
  • The world should take notice when someone...with a fanatic mind and with powerful means, receives his marching orders from Heaven.

    Peace   Powerful   War  
  • The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

    Peace   Military   War  
    "Searchlights and Nightingales". Book by Robert Wilson Lynd, 1939.
  • The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

    Peace   War   Glory  
  • You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .

    War   Merit   Littles  
    Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The bee. Essays. Unacknowledged essays. Prefaces, introductions, etc”, p.283
  • We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

    Peace   War   Believe  
    John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.7659, Delphi Classics
  • You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

    Peace   War   Needs  
    "Viewpoint: War would be insane" by Noam Chomsky, news.bbc.co.uk. February 12, 2003.
  • This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

    Peace   War   President  
    "The Trouble With Senator Tom Daschle". www.foxnews.com. March 20, 2003.
  • When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever.

    War   Voice   Forever  
  • Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.

    C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.140, Simon and Schuster
  • Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean was all smiles, well smirks, after picking up the endorsement of former Vice President Al Gore at a rally in Harlem ... Gore went on to praise Dean for taking a tough anti-war stance before the invasion of Iraq and he praised Dean supporters in hopes that will ease his concerns over lack of foreign policy experience, and his lack of support among blacks and Latinos, and his hot temperament, and perceived arrogance, and policy flip-flops, and campaign glitches. Well, there's a lot going on here.

    War   Iraq   Support  
  • Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

    Peace   War   Misery  
    Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.93, University of Chicago Press
  • No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

    Mother   Peace   War  
    Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia
  • It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

    Speech at Republican National Convention, Chicago, Ill., 7 July 1952
  • 'Rage' is the word that most often attaches itself to the Tea Party movement, and it's true that, from the outside looking in, their public demonstrations appear to be more enraged than any political events in America since the race riots and anti-war protests of the 1960s.

    War   Party   Race Riots  
    "Sipping with the Tea Party" by Jonathan Raban, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2010.
  • Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

    Peace   War   Party  
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