But Calvinists have never been pacifists: they have always…

“We’re gonna be … I mean people like you and me … we’re gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists.”

— Armistead Maupin

“Someone has said that no theology is worth believing that cannot be preached standing in front of the gates of Auschwitz. I, for one,…

— Roger E. Olson

“The common Calvinist experience of life as a refugee, or of being part of a host community that received refugees, led to lasting international…

— Thurgood Marshall

“Most people who follow the old school regarding the post-Reformation have never actually read much or maybe even anything by post-Reformation theologians and preachers.…

— Anonymous

“People who say that Calvinists teach predestination and deny free will, and that Arminians deny predestination and teach free will are simply wrong.”

— Roger E. Olson

The gloomy theology of the orthodox--the Calvinists--I do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notions--nay, most of the notions--which orthodox people have of…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.

— John Lothrop Motley

I'll pit my God against your god any day, I say to the Calvinists. It's not their god I'm praying to… The God I'm…

— Brunonia Barry

Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of…

— John Newton

“If God’s love is absolutely different from the highest and best notions of love as we derive them from Scripture itself (especially from Jesus…

— Roger E. Olson

Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it.…

— George Orwell

A pacifist male is a contradiction in terms. Most self-described "pacifists" are not pacific; they simply assume false colors. When the wind changes, they…

— Robert A. Heinlein

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

— Joan Baez

I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am…

— Robert Anton Wilson

Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of…

— Adam Michnik