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Anti-war12 quotes
All we are saying is give peace a chance. — John Lennon · 1969War!
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing. — Edwin Starr · 1970Father, father
We don't need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate. — Marvin Gaye · 1971What if someone gave a war & Nobody came?
Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again. — Allen Ginsberg · 1973You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists. — Anatole France · 1922We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples? — Seneca · 65All 12 quotes →War9 quotes
War!
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing. — Edwin Starr · 1970What if someone gave a war & Nobody came?
Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again. — Allen Ginsberg · 1973You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists. — Anatole France · 1922We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples? — Seneca · 65Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. — Carl Sandburg · 1936War, he sung, is Toil and Trouble;
Honour, but an empty Bubble.
Never ending, still beginning,
Fighting still, and still destroying;
If the World be worth thy winning,
Think, O think it worth enjoying. — John Dryden · 1697All 9 quotes →Peace2 quotes
All we are saying is give peace a chance. — John Lennon · 1969There never was a good War, or a bad Peace. — Benjamin Franklin · 1783Consequences of war1 quote
I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. — Harry Emerson Fosdick · 1933Dying for one's country1 quote
You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists. — Anatole France · 1922Genocide1 quote
We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples? — Seneca · 65Patriotism1 quote
You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists. — Anatole France · 1922Vietnam War1 quote
Father, father
We don't need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate. — Marvin Gaye · 1971War and peace1 quote
There never was a good War, or a bad Peace. — Benjamin Franklin · 1783