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For more than four thousand years, the world’s most influential philosophers, educators, politicians, scientists, artists, clergy, and soldiers have argued against war. • There never was a good war or a bad peace.—Benjamin Franklin • All wars are popular for the first thirty days.—Arthur Schlesinger Jr. • War is a bankruptcy of policy.—Hans von Seeckt • This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: When he first appears, he is a protector.—Plato • Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.—A. Philip Randolph • The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.—E. B. White • I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace.—Albert Einstein • Activism is my rent for living on this planet.—Alice Walker
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With words of wisdom by everyone from Socrates and Thomas Jefferson to Anne Frank, Alice Walker, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bono, The Anti-War Quote Book features more than 250 inspiring and thought-provoking arguments for peace. Here's just a small sample: On propaganda: 'The first casualty, when war comes, is truth.'—Hiram Johnson On empires: 'Government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build with or you can use a hammer to destroy with.'—Molly Ivins On victory: 'One is left with the horrible feeling that war settles nothing, that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.'—Agatha Christie On peace: 'I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.'—Dwight D. Eisenhower Featuring a big, bold graphic design, archival photographs of peace rallies, and images of classic protest posters from around the world, The Anti-War Quote Book is guaranteed to fuel conversations as the election of 2008 unfolds.
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