Henry Rollins Quotes

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

I think women should make a habit of canceling the wars.

Nobody's ever tried the peace thing, ... We are selling it like soap.

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.

Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact, and if the White race decides to wage it no longer, the dark ones will, and will become the masters of the world.

The most important thing today is to stop US wars.

If the workers of this world, men and women, decide not to manufacture and transport ammunition, it would end war for all time. We must do that. Dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war; ammunition factories.

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

If war stems from unmet needs related to male adolescent ritual, that's something that we need to examine. I'm interested in the possibility of simply getting rid of war. I'd be no more willing to let go of that than to let go of the possibility of eradicating cancer. That's not to say I'm certain we can, but I am willing to use any energy at all in the quest.

... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

I want my fellow citizens to wise up and stop falling for [war]. I try with my limited access, I'm not getting into Kabul with a camera, they're not letting me get into Benghazi with a camera. I do what I can with my flimsy American passport and a visa. The photos are a bit more heavy from Southern Sudan and Haiti and Cuba.

I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.

In the Sixties, the hippies said "Make love, not war," and that was naive. But it might be less naive to say "Make music, not war," in the sense that the people who create musical instruments are the same people who make up new weapons.

The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.

any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.

By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John Brown' - not the abolitionist John Brown, but the one that Bob Dylan has covered and sung before. It's about a boy coming home from the Civil War, or maybe World War I even, and about his Mother seeing him all destroyed.

Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.

Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.

As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.

the issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States.