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
“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
“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
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
Wild Goose exemplifies how the Evangelical Left translates 'social justice' into Big Government and pacifism. — Mark Tooley Copy Share Image
“Having been to war myself, I do not understand why so many people are so in love with it.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias.” — Michel Templet 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
“There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.” — Albert Dietrich Copy Share Image
A pacifist has a lot of difficulty reconciling pacifism with scripture. — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“Going to say it anyway," said Graff. "Poor fool of a boy. Pacifism only works with an enemy that can't bear to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Kad Rat pravi žurku, redosled gostiju uvek je isti... Prvo dođu Popovi... Pa Topovi... Pa Lopovi... Ostali se i ne pozivaju. Ostali… — Đorđe Balašević Copy Share Image
“The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle [World War II], while living on food which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent… — Dwight Macdonald Copy Share Image
“The idea that war can ever bring freedom is quite possibly the greatest deception that mankind has ever forced upon himself.” — Michel Templet 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
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
“It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write what I… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But… — Bono 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
“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
“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
“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
once your eyes get opened to pacifism, you can't shut them again. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. You may… — Muriel Lester Copy Share Image
Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“A more subtle misconception is that of a hypostasis of evil as indestructible reality, a kind of primal scene, a sort of… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Pacifism is a psychological curiosity rather than a political movement. Some of the extremer pacifists, starting out with a complete renunciation of… — George Orwell 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
“That war [Bosnian war] in the early 1990s changed a lot for me. I never thought I would see, in Europe, a… — Christopher Hitchens 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
Fascism, in so far as it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
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