31 Anti-War Quotes for You to Enjoy

Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.' Viggo Mortensen

The truth is an anti-war statement in itself. Henry Rollins

Truth Truth Is Statement Anti-War Itself

All left-wing activists, whether it be WTO, anti-WTO, or anti-war, are idealistic as framed by the Democratic Media Complex. Andrew Breitbart

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At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history. Arlo Guthrie

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I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did. Bernadine Dohrn

Better Wish Had Feminist Anti-War Than Did Movement

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war. Kevin Powers

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I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire. Marianne Faithfull

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

People Took Part October Demonstrations Anti-War Estimated Large-Scale

Former soldiers will almost always gravitate to the anti-war party. This happens for obvious reasons. The men who have been in battle tend not to romanticize it and tend not to take it flippantly. Rod Lurie

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I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march. Al Sharpton

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I was involved in the anti-war movement. Bill Ayers

Involved Anti-War Movement

The Obama campaign decimated the newly regenerated anti-war movement in 2008. And he definitely isn't anti-war. Boots Riley

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I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed. David Talbot

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Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica - they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall. Douglas Rushkoff

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I read '1984' at a precocious age, like 8, and when I did the math, I realized that Julia, Winston Smith's lover, was born the same year I was, 1957. I read that book over and over again with the 1960s as a backdrop: anti-war and anti-bomb protests and this general pervasive sense of doom. Elizabeth Hand

Age Book Year Sense Lover Backdrop Born General Winston Over Like Smith Read Protests Math Julia Anti-War Did Same Precocious Doom Again Realized Pervasive

Wilson won re-election in 1916, his campaign running on the slogan, 'He kept us out of war.' But he could then betray his anti-war supporters knowing that a rising political coalition - made up, in part, of men looking to redeem a lost war by finding new wars to fight - had his back. Greg Grandin

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It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas. Ian Watson

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Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban. Imran Khan

Because Been Anti-War

'Rage' is the word that most often attaches itself to the Tea Party movement, and it's true that, from the outside looking in, their public demonstrations appear to be more enraged than any political events in America since the race riots and anti-war protests of the 1960s. Jonathan Raban

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Once conscription was introduced during the First World War, and once Britain's wars ceased being confined to the empire or to continental Europe and began seriously threatening our own shores and safety, it became much easier to denounce any anti-war agitation and argument as inherently irresponsible and unpatriotic. Linda Colley

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In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come. Peter Riegert

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They were terrified that we were going to become an anti-war kind of platform. Phil Donahue

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