Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.                                                                                                                                                                      ~Ayn Rand

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.                                                                                                                                    ~Ayn Rand

Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!                                                                                                                      ~Helen Keller

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.

                                                                                                                              ~Cesar Chavez

After victory, you have more enemies.

                                       ~Cicero

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

                                                                                                                                ~Colin Powell

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.                                                                                                                                     ~General Douglas MacArthur

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.                                                                                                                                    ~General Douglas MacArthur

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.                                                                                                                                        ~George Orwell   Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.                                                              ~Groucho Marx

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

                                                                                                                                 ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Quotes selected from this page.