I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price. -- Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)

 

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

All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them. -- Emma Goldman The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed. -- Emma Goldman

 

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.
-- Germaine Greer

"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.
-- Sydney J. Harris

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. -- Vaclav Havel

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
-- Ernest Hemingway

"In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons."
-- Herodotus

 

"“I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.”" -- Dustin Hoffman

 

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
-- Napoleon Hill

If people were forced to eat what they killed there would be no more war.
-- Abbie Hoffman

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized man.
-- King Hussein of Jordan

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. -- Aldous Huxley

 

"And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."
-- Isaiah 2:4

The first casualty, when war comes, is truth.
-- Hiram Johnson

I am tired of fighting.... from where the sun now stands, I will fight no more. -- Chief Joseph (1732-1794)

"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind...War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." --John F. Kennedy

Everything in war is barbaric … But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
-- Ellen Key

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.
-- Ellen Key

"The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
-- Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

The most important thing today is to stop US wars. -- Yuri Kochiyama

Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed. -- Kathe Kollwitz

Who would ever have believed that human beings would be stupid enough to blow themselves off the face of the earth? The war started when people accepted the idiotic principle that peace could be maintained by arranging to defend themselves with weapons they couldn't possibly use without committing suicide.
-- Stanley Kramer and John Paxton

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
-- Karl Kraus

"How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print."
-- Karl Kraus, Die letzte Nacht, 1918

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