The following is a list of anti-war/peace quotes that I found on my local newspaper's Website. Someone compiled it in response to a cliche-ridden, militaristic letter about Memorial Day and posted it in the comments section. These quotes come from a diverse array of historical, political, and literary figures.
"Never has there been a good war or a bad peace."-- Benjamin Franklin
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed."-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"All men are brothers, like the seas throughout, so why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?"-- Emperor Hirohito
"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."-- Ernest Hemingway
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?"-- Gandhi
"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."-- George McGovern
"An unjust peace is better than a just war."-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
"War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men."-- Georges Clemenceau
(There'll probably be a follow-up anti-war/peace quotes list sometime in the near future.)
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