Antiwar Quotations Quotes

“If you put people in a perfect paradise which is more than enough for the world population, they will still start making war with each other to catch the best corner there!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“You idiots who choose not to surrender in battle and die to be heroes, listen! You are not as brave as delicate flowers who take every opportunity to live because choosing life is the greatest courage!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Humanity will only get a chance to exist in this universe for a very long time, only when humanity becomes a single army fighting against the universe instead of fighting each other! A humanity fighting in itself wastes valuable energy in this chaotic universe where there is a race against time to survive!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“While your country is at war, if you are contemplating the secrets of the universe in a boat in the middle of a lake, people will never understand you, because dealing with universal great ideas rather than engaging in primitive and irrational local affairs like wars disturbs especially underdeveloped minds!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There is nothing more tragicomic than when people fight and kill each other while the greatest enemy of mankind is death!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“No matter how many arms and legs the war cuts off, how many blind and deaf people it creates, no matter how many deaths it causes, there will always be morally rotten demons and mentally incompetent morons who want war!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“No matter how tightly the door of the path to peace is closed, do not leave that door and spend all your energy, use all your wit to open it!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A defense of the homeland must only be done with civil disobedience, which does not require the death of anyone! If the attacked country uses the methods of the attacking country and responds to violence with violence, it will commit a moral mistake. The red line is simple: Don't kill anyone, even your enemy, and if you can defeat your enemy with non-violent methods, the real victory is there!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Even when you are sitting in front of a beautiful view in the most beautiful and quiet place in the world, a thorn will prick you, it hurts a lot, what is that thorn? It is conscience! Because your conscience says that someone is dying somewhere while you are sitting in peace!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Remember that not giving peace a chance to blossom is the biggest risk of all. There is nothing like the fecund beauty of peace.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Mankind is an idiot who managed to create chaos in the only peaceful world we know in this chaotic universe!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Those who deserve war medals are only those who did not take up arms in war and never resorted to violence!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“When war begins somewhere, the attacking party is guilty; but if the war is going on, then both sides are guilty because when it comes to war the only thing that matters is that the killings stop immediately and if surrender is going to stop the killing then it has to be done! It is unacceptable for the present generations to die for the freedom of the next generations because to live is the right of every generation! Surrender is not defeat, you can surrender and continue the war with non-violent methods!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Come, come and sit beside me and watch the Sun and Sunflowers toast each other and perceive that peace is just a drink away from the eternity.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Everything that the sword can solve is immoral because there is no morality in violence!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Peace will claw its way out, anyhow.
War cannot bury it forever.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“The people we want to see devastated in a war are not ordinary people who are innocent victims of war, but despicable politicians who started this war!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If you take shelter in a cabin in the woods while everyone else is fighting, everyone will call you a coward, not knowing that you are afraid not of dying but of killing, that you are fleeing from the war just to protect your humanity!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Peace isn’t
dead and buried.
It is only in a coma.
It will spring to life
again soon.
Very soon”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“If a commander can achieve a victory in a war by keeping all his own soldiers alive and without killing the enemy soldiers, that is a real victory! Is such a victory possible? No, it's not possible, that's why there is never victory in war, and if there is, it is only the victory of death!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“When we try to make the world a slightly more peaceful place to be, the world also conspires to bless us with peace.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“War is a crime of mass murder; deciding on war is a crime; the war industry is a crime; participating in war is a crime; working in the war industry is a crime; warmongering is a crime; everything related to war is a great crime!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“We can transform ourselves and the world around us. It's up to us to make it happen. We are capable.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“If we can ignite peace inside us, we can ignite it anywhere.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world by war. How many more wars do we need? How many deaths? How many rapes? How much destruction? How much pain? I don't believe we can’t change anything through peace.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“You're proud of your country's history, aren't you? How many countries have you conquered, how many countries have you brought to their knees, how many lands have you annexed to yourself! Do you know what you're bragging about? How many people you've killed, how many lives you've destroyed, that's exactly what you're bragging about! You boast of barbarism, primitiveness and evil! Your soul is ugly!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There has never been a war that did not lead to a graveyard, and anyone who starts something that does lead to a graveyard is the lowest of the low!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There is only one way to be a hero in a war: Not to kill anyone! There is only one way to emerge from a war as a human being: To put down the weapon given to you! This is the only honourable behaviour for both sides fighting each other!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Don't take sides in a war! If no one takes sides in a war, that war will end immediately! Wars continue because you take sides and support your side!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Each step toward understanding shatters division and builds the unbreakable foundation of peace.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya