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Quotes About Opposition

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
~ George Orwell
War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage.
~ Dick Motta
Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.
~ Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.
~ Bill Ayers
Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
~ Breyten Breytenbach
The problem is that the East is producing missiles and the West is producing pacifists.
~ Francois Mitterrand
Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but few.
~ Hernando Cortes
Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence. And we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.
~ Natalie Maines
What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.
~ Horatio Nelson
We are proud to say we are racist and hate to see Whites fighting each other. I oppose the Wars.
~ Tom Metzger
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
~ Sun Tzu
Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.
~ Philip Roth
The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.
~ Robert E. Lee
No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
~ Pablo Picasso
I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand.
~ Terry Gilliam
Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.
~ Sun Tzu
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.
~ Pablo Picasso
What, at peace with the Father and at war with the children? It cannot be.
~ John Flavel
It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.
~ John Adams
Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.
~ Richard M. Nixon
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
~ George Orwell
Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
My sentence is for open war.
~ John Milton
My voice is still for war.
~ Joseph Addison