I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical…

In the sixties, during the Vietnam war, when anarchists and pacifists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, decent-hearted Americans, all recoiled with horror at the…

— Pete Seeger

I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what…

— Marwan Barghouti

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

[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“When it comes to fighting evil, the left is almost pacifist.”

— Dennis Prager

I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into…

— Albert Einstein

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

— Joan Baez

Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a…

— Mancur Olson

When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy. When Obama wanted to bomb Syria, he…

— Paul Bloom

I'm a pacifist by nature.

— Rafael Correa

I think that religions must seek peace and love and therefore be pacifist.

— Pierre Trudeau

Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and…

— Noam Chomsky

Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited…

— Stefan Zweig

I'm not a pacifist. I do believe that, unfortunately, war is necessary.

— Mike Hoffman

“Someone once told me a joke," he said. "I'd like to be a pacifist, but people keep getting in the way.' I made a…

— Edeet Ravel