Antiwar Quotes
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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.
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All government wars are unjust.
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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.
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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.
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Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.
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War is a defeat for humanity.
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The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.
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Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense! These... tyrants, these red-handed robbers and murderers, the "patriots," while the men who have the courage to stand face to face with them, speak the truth, and fight for their exploited victims - they are [called] the disloyalists and traitors. If this be true, I want to take my place side by side with the traitors in this fight.
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Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.
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In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
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Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.
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In fact, I was in a lab that was a hundred percent funded by the Pentagon, and it was one of the centers of the organized antiwar resistance movement.
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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
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In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
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The world should take notice when someone...with a fanatic mind and with powerful means, receives his marching orders from Heaven.
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The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
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The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.
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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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