War Quotes

Those who fought, those who protested, and those who survived reflect on humanity's darkest impulse.

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"The nuclear bomb is the most anti-democratic, anti-human, thing that man has ever made."
Arundhati Roy
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"Every single act of violence has reverberations that echo in ways we can't always predict."
Arundhati Roy
"We are waging war on the planet"
Bill McKibben
"War with nature is a war we cannot win. Only cooperation offers hope."
Bill McKibben
"The colonization of agriculture continues through the control of seeds and genetic material."
Vandana Shiva
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"War begins in the hearts of people before it manifests in the world."
Angela Davis
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"War is not inevitable; it is chosen by those who have the power to choose."
Angela Davis
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"The real invasion began not with weapons, but with words."
Arundhati Roy
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"We are living through a war that has no name."
Arundhati Roy
"War on nature must end."
Bill McKibben
"The real terrorism is the destruction of the conditions for life itself."
Vandana Shiva
"Every pesticide is a form of violence against life."
Vandana Shiva
"The violence we inflict on nature comes back to haunt us as disease and disaster."
Vandana Shiva
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"War and climate change both threaten civilization."
James Hansen
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"Wars are not fought only on battlefields. They're fought in the hearts and minds of civilians at home as well."
Arundhati Roy
"The war against nature is a war against ourselves."
Bill McKibben
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"War against nature always becomes war against communities."
Naomi Klein
"Violence is embedded in the very structure of industrial food systems."
Vandana Shiva
"Every pesticide is a small act of war against the Earth and ourselves."
Vandana Shiva
"Agriculture based on chemicals is agriculture based on violence and control."
Vandana Shiva
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"War against climate change requires mobilization on an unprecedented scale."
James Hansen
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"War is the failure of imagination."
Arundhati Roy
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"War destroys what peace builds."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"War leaves scars that peace must heal."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"War is the failure of diplomacy."
Aimé Césaire
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"War against nature is war against ourselves."
David Brower
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"War teaches us the value of peace through its terrible costs."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
"We must leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them."
Frantz Fanon
"Fighting is a form of communication."
Frantz Fanon
"The violence which has ruled over the ordering of the colonial world."
Frantz Fanon