“Is it morally acceptable to murder one hundred innocent people in the process of catching a serial killer who has murdered ten… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
“Those times you caught them out and showed them up -- they learned how stupid they are. But now you'll never hear… — William Edgar Stafford Copy Share Image
“The very thought that war can ever be justified, let alone desirable or even noble, is quite honestly the greatest deception that… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact, and if the White race decides to wage it no longer, the dark ones… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy,… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
“Why is it acceptable to do such horrible things in the name of staying alive? Would it not have been better had… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil! Lysistrata: If that's all that troubles you,… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to see how Gandhi's methods could be applied in a country where opponents of the regime disappear in the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Writers haven't got any rockets to blast off. We don't even trundle the most insignificant auxiliary vehicle. We haven't got any military… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In foreign politics many intellectuals follow the principle that any faction backed by Britain must be in the wrong. As a result,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I decided that being a peacemaker was a Christian’s role and recommitted to pacifism. But this was a new kind of pacifism… — Kristy Burmeister Copy Share Image
“I think about something I once heard on the radio. About Abraham and Isaac." "I was afraid you'd say something like that."… — A.J. Kazinski Copy Share Image
“We cannot afford the luxury known as conscience. The enemy we are up against certainly doesn't have one, so we are obliged… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would… — Piet Pieterszoon Hein Copy Share Image
Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I find it significant that most of the people who believe in just war have never fought in one; examples: Barack W.… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
The goal of pacifism is possible only though a supranational organization. To stand unconditionally for this cause is the criterion of true… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I'm sort of exploring where pacifism and socialism come into conflict. How do you reconcile a passionate rejection of might and violence… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
“All in all it is difficult not to feel that pacifism, as it appears among a section of the intelligentsia, is secretly… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The threat of nuclear holocaust fosters pacifism; when pacifism spreads, war recedes and trade flourishes; and trade increases both the profits of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Pacifism means letting the non-pacifists have control ... Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact. If the white races are resolved… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“Europe’s reluctance to go to war frustrates some Americans. I believe their relative pacifism is because Europeans know the reality of war,… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
“If [pacifists] imagine that one can somehow "overcome" the German army by lying on one's back, let them go on imagining it,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
![“If [pacifists] imagine that one can somehow "overcome" the German army by lying on one's back, let them go on imagining it, but let them also wonder occasionally whether this is not an illusion due to security, too much money and a simple ignorance of the way in which things actually happen.” quote by George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/009/george-orwell-57_anti-war_if-pacifists-imagine-that-one-can-someho_2532055.jpg)
