anti-war quotes

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression – thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.