20+ Anti War Sayings and Anti War Quotes
20+ Anti War Sayings and Anti War Quotes – As news headlines around the world are flooded with reports of violent conflict, it is important that people keep fighting for peace. Peace is something that must be actively worked for, as we consciously decide to walk away from war. Speaking is just one way to do this.
Here are some of the most powerful anti-war statements from people of faith.
1.If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison
2.I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George McGovern
3.In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aeschylus
4.War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
5.No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
James Madison
6.I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
7.There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
Howard Zinn
8.’Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
Friedrich August von Hayek
9.We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
Jimmy Carter
10.What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
Aldous Huxley
11.Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
James Madison
12.Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Plato
13.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
14.I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
15.Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ronald Reagan
16.Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington
17.One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
Agatha Christie
18.War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
George Orwell
19.War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann
20.I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi
21.Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway
