Woody Guthrie Quotes

There is now all this patriotic indignation about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Japanese expansionism in Asia. Yet not a word about American and European expansionism in the same area.... We must make a start. We must renounce war as an instrument of policy.... Even as I speak to you I may be guilty of what some men call treason.... You young men should refuse to take up arms. Young women tear down the patriotic posters. And all of you — young and old — put away your flags.

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.

Fight the fighters, not their wars.

I am fed up with war and the clamor for war.

I am against war, and because I am against war I went to war to fight against war.

The war the soldiers tried to stop.

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.

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'.

What are they going to do, shoot me? It's not war you know.

I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.

Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.

A toast to the weapons of war, may they rust in peace.

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

They were terrified that we were going to become an anti-war kind of platform.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

I think 'Make love, not war' might be the most profound statement that's ever been made.

It is often pacifists who, halting and stumbling and not knowing whither they are going, finally drift helplessly into a war.

If mankind hated war, there would be millions of us and only two soldiers.

We are much in the position of those who love peace so much that they are ready to fight for it.

The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace.

You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war.

No more bloody wars, no more bloody medals

The soldier is applauded who refuses to serve in an unjust war by those who do not refuse to sustain the unjust government which makes the war