If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say “no” to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses. – Louis Lecoin
War is fear cloaked in courage. – William Westmoreland
War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered. – Thomas de Quincey
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. – Henry Kissinger
Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood. – Gandhi, Non-violence in Peace and War, 1948
We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped. – Harriet Tubman
Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner. – Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol 1, book VII, chapter 4
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. – Author unknown
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
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. – Percy Bysshe Shelley, “A Declaration of Rights”
To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man. – Michael Servetus
A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been. – Victor Hugo
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. – Otto Von Bismark
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people. – Gerome Gragni and James Rado, 1967
War hath no fury like a noncombatant. – Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment
What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. – Simone Weil, Ecrits historiques et politiques, 1960
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation. – Benjamin Disraeli
Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform? – Douglas Jerrold
If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. – Pope John Paul II
