Anti War Quotes

I've seen what war does. I've seen the destruction it leaves behind, not just in buildings, but in human souls. I've seen faces that have lost all hope, eyes that still see nightmares. It is not heroism, but a repeated tragedy. Enough, a truth underscored by these anti-war quotes.

Quote by Mark Twain: I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land....
I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
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— Mark Twain
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Quote by John Lennon: We went to America a few times and [Brian] Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying noth...
We went to America a few times and [Brian] Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when George [Harrison] and I said 'Listen, when they ask next time, we're going to say we don't like that war and we think they should get right out.' That's what we did.
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— John Lennon
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Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt: I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war....
I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
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— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Quote by Walt Whitman: I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hos...
I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals ... there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the wars - allw ars: God damn every war: God damn 'em! God damn 'em!
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— Walt Whitman
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Quote by Ernest Hemingway: The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the...
The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.
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— Ernest Hemingway
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Quote by Helen Keller: Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought....
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought.
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— Helen Keller
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Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt: I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have...
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
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— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Quote by John Lennon: Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war....
Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.
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— John Lennon
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Quote by John Lennon: There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair....
There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.
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— John Lennon
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Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt: I have seen war ... I hate war....
I have seen war ... I hate war.
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— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Quote by Henry David Thoreau: Only the defeated and deserters go to war....
Only the defeated and deserters go to war.
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— Henry David Thoreau
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Quote by Helen Keller: Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel ...
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.
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— Helen Keller
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