“I find it significant that most military veterans become pacifists.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“Pacifism is a tenable position, provided that you are prepared to live with the consequences.” — George Orwell 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
Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work. — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
“I think it's good to smile at everybody so that everyone knows you love everyone. It's good for human pacifism.” — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
“... it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable… — Hermann Hesse 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
“But you invite ...” “I invite a bit of military nonsense.” “That’s what I ...” “Duncan, I am a teacher. Remember that.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“If I went on a killing spree that left thousands of people dead, I'd be branded as the worst kind of criminal.… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and… — Albert Einstein 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
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
“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
“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
“Magistrate: What do you propose to do then, pray? Lysistrata: You ask me that! Why, we propose to administer the treasury ourselves… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism.… — Jimmy Carter 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
“We have to accept that any action we take might promote an equal and opposite reaction that we do not want. We… — John Hunter Copy Share Image
My pacifism came after I joined the army and was shipped over to Korea. There was a little one-room orphanage there called… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
“[Nicholson] Baker can't seem to get enough of the wisdom of Gandhi and cites at length an open letter he wrote to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Fugitive Peace (Sonnet 2219) In the opera of war, peace is fugitive - thinking soldiers are no good to state, either you… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“In answer to 'But violence hasn't solved anything!' The hell it hasn't. The application of violence - of killing and a willingness… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
“For most of my life, I would have automatically said that I would opt for conscientious objector status, and in general, I… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“On 11 September 2001, a bunch of Saudis killed almost 3000 US civilians, which led to the construction of a monument in… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“As regards pacifism, the belief that it is always wrong to kill a human being, again, anyone is free to hold this… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
![“[Nicholson] Baker can't seem to get enough of the wisdom of Gandhi and cites at length an open letter he wrote to the British people on 3 July 1940. "Your soldiers are doing the same work of destruction as the Germans," wrote the Mahatma. "I want you to fight Nazism without arms." He went on to…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae7/christopher-hitchens-117_british-people_nicholson-baker-can-t-seem-to-get-enough_909521.jpg)
