Not only is war a form of legalized murder, but it is mass serial killing.

If you support any offensive war, consider yourself just as culpable of murder as the most insane serial killer.

I'd like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat.

We say that we care about the war, but we don’t even really know what we’re fighting for.

We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause...

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.

From a speech delivered Wed. July 6, 2005.

Tis not, 'my country right or wrong'; tis, 'my country, that which is right to be kept right, that which is wrong to be set right'

from his senate remarks 2/29/72. published in 'The Policy of Imperialism, Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz, vol. 6, pp. 119–20 (1913).

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.

US Senator(SC), lived from 1753-1824

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another...after the war is on.

The price of empire is America’s soul, and that price is too high.

This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.

Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.

We first fought...in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs peace to evolve.

Ebadi is Nobel Peace Laureate of Iran. This quote is excerpted from the 5/5/06 Washington Post's "Diplomatic Dispatches," by Nora Boustany.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another...

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms...

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics...

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.