I thought it would be neat in light of the current situation to share some anti-war quotations. If anyone can send me some good pro-war quotations I would like to look at them for curiosity’s sake. I have a pet theory that no great writers or artists have had a conservative temperment.
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“Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out…and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel. ..And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for “the universal brotherhood of man”–with his mouth.” – Mark Twain
“Either war is obsolete or men are.”
–R. Buckminster Fuller
“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.” -George Orwell
“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.” – Albert Einstein
“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.” – Bertrand Russell
Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. – Charles Sumner
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. – Voltaire, War
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. ~Thomas Mann
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. – Havelock Ellis
The pioneers of a warless world are the [youth] who refuse military service. – Albert Einstein