Pilou Asbaek Quotes

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'pro' one side or the other in a conflict.

I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not.

Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.

As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

I've been proud to be the chair of the Stop the War coalition, proud to be associated with the Stop the War coalition.

To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.

We're not nearly as violent as the westerns.

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

My voice is still [i.e. silent] for war.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

I never aligned myself specifically with the anti-war movement.

Pacifism means letting the non-pacifists have control ... Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact. If the white races are resolved never to wage war again, the colored will act differently and become rulers of the world.

I have a great admiration for pacifism, but I'm not a pacifist, mainly because I would defend myself if I were attacked.

Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

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.

Pacifism is a nice idea but it can get you killed. We're not there yet. Evolution is slow, small pox is fast.

I have received a commission to make a poster against war. That is a task that makes me happy. Some may say a thousand times that this is not pure art.... but as long as I can work, I want to be effective with my art.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

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.

It seems to me an utterly futile task to prescribe rules and limitations for the conduct of war. War is not a game; hence one cannot wage war by rules as one would in playing games. Our fight must be against war itself. The masses of people can most effectively fight the institution of war by establishing an organization for the absolute refusal of military service.

Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother’s Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict.

No music is going to stop the war. What's going to stop the war is a large amount of body bags, or a large amount of people in the streets, protesting it before it starts.