Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting. — William Faulkner 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
Wild Goose exemplifies how the Evangelical Left translates 'social justice' into Big Government and pacifism. — Mark Tooley 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
“I find it significant that most military veterans become pacifists.” — Michel Templet 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
“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
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
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
Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than… — 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
Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the… — David Limbaugh 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
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
“Udžbenik "Geografija za nepismene" izlazi dnevno, kao novine, Narod mora biti u toku šta mu je od jutros Domovina, a šta više… — Đorđe Balašević 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
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
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
I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating… — Marwan Barghouti 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
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
Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“There was a time in my life when I did a fair bit of work for the tempestuous Lucretia Stewart, then editor… — Christopher Hitchens 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
“There was something else amusing about the house: the irony that the most important battle of the American Revolution--the shoot-out at the… — Josh Barkan 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
“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
“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
“[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
“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
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