Best military & anti-war Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to kill people and to destroy.”

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Author:Thomas S. Power

“Either war is obsolete, or men are.”

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Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.”

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Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions.”

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Author:Vaclav Havel

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

Source: Hemingway on War

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

Source: By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

“A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.”

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Author:Daniel Webster

“I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.”

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Author:Abbie Hoffman

“The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.”

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Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

“The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.”

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Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”

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Author:Thomas Mann

“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.”

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Author:Groucho Marx

“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”

“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.”

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Book:My American Journey

Source: My American Journey

“History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.”

Source: Ronald Reagan

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