In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.

MacArthur was an American army general who lived 1880-1964. (quote from 'The Anti-War Quote Book,' edited Eric Groves, Sr., pub. Quirk Books, 2008)

I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.

MacArthur was an American army general who lived 1880-1964. (quote from 'The Anti-War Quote Book,' edited Eric Groves, Sr., pub. Quirk Books, 2008)

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificually induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.

U.S. Five Star General.

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.

War is just a racket...I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.

People who are anxious to bring on war don’t know what they are bargaining for; they don’t see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

1824-1863. Confederate General of the US Civil War.

It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.

1824-1863. Confederate General of the US Civil War.

Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs --to kill people and to destroy.

Any forces that would impose their will on other nations will certainly face defeat.

War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine...War is hell.

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

The military doesn't start wars. The politicians start wars.

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.