Source: Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs
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Peace Quotes
“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
Source: Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian
“One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.”
Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
“Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.”
Source: Novels, 1930-1935
“Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8
“It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.”
“Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
Source: War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading
“War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.”
“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.”
Source: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays
Source: Notebooks
“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.”
“We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”
Source: Just Peace: A Message of Hope
“There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.”
Source: Living Faith
“Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.”
Source: Poor Russell's almanac
Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
“Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.”
Source: Einstein's Monsters
“The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.”
“War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.”
Source: The New Realities The First Richard Joshua Reynolds Lecture at Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia, Nov. 19, 1963
Source: Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society
“Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.”
Source: As We Go Marching