David Kirkwood Quotes

I write as a man in the street. Doubtless I am abnormally dense one because I cannot for the life of me see why this country should be drawn into this war [WWI]. Serbia is not worth the life of one single British Grenadier.

If I am called an appeaser because I oppose the country’s entry into the present war, I gladly accept the title.

We refuse to fight another balance-of-power war.

He [Norman Angell] wrote these words in 1910. One politician after another lined up to praise the book. Four years later, the same men started World War I.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

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

War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.

I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.

War is murder ., The word “murderer” should be embroidered in red letters across the breast of every soldier. I will devote my life to fight this spirit of militarism.

The isolationists were the party of neutrality and pacifism [during the yeara before American Entry into WWI.]

I can say this very clearly: I have come into this Congress with an antiwar bias.

The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.

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

At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.