“I think it's good to smile at everybody so that everyone knows you love everyone. It's good for human pacifism.” — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Pacifism is a tenable position, provided that you are prepared to live with the consequences.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work. — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.” — Albert Dietrich Copy Share Image
Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even the most… — Anthony Beal Copy Share Image
I have a great admiration for pacifism, but I'm not a pacifist, mainly because I would defend myself if I were attacked. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Moreover [pacifists] do not as a rule condemn violence as such, but only violence used in defence of western countries” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from… — Socrates Copy Share Image
A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Udžbenik "Geografija za nepismene" izlazi dnevno, kao novine, Narod mora biti u toku šta mu je od jutros Domovina, a šta više… — Đorđe Balašević Copy Share Image
“The speaker calls for a careful examination of Christ's principle of turning the other cheek before we use it as a demand… — John Thackway Copy Share Image
“Generally speaking, by the way, that is the moral of the opponents of violence in politics: they renounce violence when it comes… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Magistrate: What do you propose to do then, pray? Lysistrata: You ask me that! Why, we propose to administer the treasury ourselves… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism.… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Hidden in my desire to become a naval aviator was something more complex: a personal engagement with the problem of violence that… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“Fugitive Peace (Sonnet 2219) In the opera of war, peace is fugitive - thinking soldiers are no good to state, either you… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“On 11 September 2001, a bunch of Saudis killed almost 3000 US civilians, which led to the construction of a monument in… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“As regards pacifism, the belief that it is always wrong to kill a human being, again, anyone is free to hold this… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“I didn't know what exhausted me emotionally until that moment, and I realized that the experience of being a soldier, with unlimited… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
“We have to accept that any action we take might promote an equal and opposite reaction that we do not want. We… — John Hunter Copy Share Image
My pacifism came after I joined the army and was shipped over to Korea. There was a little one-room orphanage there called… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
“[Nicholson] Baker can't seem to get enough of the wisdom of Gandhi and cites at length an open letter he wrote to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It was strange to us that none of these three victims made any attempt to resist the attack. Indeed, not one inhabitant… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a "just" war. It's just war. And it's antithetical to the Gospel.” — David D. Flowers Copy Share Image
The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A pacifist has a lot of difficulty reconciling pacifism with scripture. — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
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