Browsing Topic Best Anti War Quotes

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.

We should not worry if some roads to peace go through Beijing, New Delhi or Brasília. So long as all roads to war do not go through Washington.

War is the single worst thing in the world. It’s the most insane thing humans do. The most ruinous. The most traumatizing. The least sustainable.

If you’re not forcefully opposing your government’s warmongering and imperialism, then the rest of your politics are irrelevant, because they are false. A sincerely antiwar right-winger with all the wrong positions on all other issues is still a much better person than you are.

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak… Non-violence is hard work.

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies

The more laws, the less justice.

Wars not make one great.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

With our hearts aching for what is happening in Ukraine, let us not forget wars in other parts of the world, such as Yemen, Syria, Ethiopia … I repeat: May weapons be silenced! God is with peacemakers, not those who use violence.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

…we must try to stop the war, recognizing that the American empire has little or no moral authority when it comes to violation of international law and the overthrow of national sovereignty, as in Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

Russia absolutely does not want war in Europe, but it’s the West that says it’s necessary to defeat Russia. Main conclusion is not to rely on plans of West to negotiate.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

War is organized murder, and nothing else.

War’s tragedy is that it uses man’s best to do man’s worst.

The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.

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.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.