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Allen Ginsberg1 quote

What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again. — Allen Ginsberg · 1973

Anatole France1 quote

You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists. — Anatole France · 1922

Benjamin Franklin1 quote

There never was a good War, or a bad Peace. — Benjamin Franklin · 1783

Carl Sandburg1 quote

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. — Carl Sandburg · 1936

Christopher Marlowe1 quote

Accurst be he that first invented war. — Christopher Marlowe · 1587

Edwin Starr1 quote

War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. — Edwin Starr · 1970

George V1 quote

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war. — George V · 1922

Harry Emerson Fosdick1 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 · 1933

John Dryden1 quote

War, 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 · 1697

John Lennon1 quote

All we are saying is give peace a chance. — John Lennon · 1969

Marvin Gaye1 quote

Father, father We don't need to escalate You see, war is not the answer For only love can conquer hate. — Marvin Gaye · 1971

Seneca1 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 · 65