Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work. — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
Lobbying, protesting, letter-writing, American media, civil disobedience, and preaching pacifism ad nauseum, along with EDUCATION is the most effective way to enlighten… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
“The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not. — Thomas Jefferson 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
“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
“The young officers who had come back [from WW1], hardened by their terrible experience and disgusted by the attitude of the younger… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized... The churches as… — Walter Wink 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
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
It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments… — Victor Hugo 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
“This side of the Kingdom of God upon Earth, it is a melancholy human fact that those who beat their swords into… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of… — Errico Malatesta 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
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
As a result of the Left's sympathetic views of pacifism and because almost no welfare state can afford a strong military, European… — Dennis Prager 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
“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
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
“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
“If the counsel of the peaceniks had been followed, Kuwait would today be the nineteenth province of Iraq. Bosnia would be a… — Christopher Hitchens 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
Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
