Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Pacifism is a tenable position, provided that you are prepared to live with the consequences.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work. — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred. — Albert Einstein 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 “war hero”, because there is nothing about war that is heroic.” — Michelle Templet Copy Share Image
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the — Theodore Roosevelt 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
I know there are some Christians who believe that war and their participation in it are morally wrong. While I respect their… — Pat Robertson 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 main problem with pacifism is that it doesn’t work in all situations. The main problem with pacifists is that they’re convinced… — Burt Prelutsky 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
“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
“If the question is ‘How do we stop enormous evils in the world?’ the answer is, unfortunately, quite frequently ‘War.’ Nazi and… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“The friends of Galtieri, Saddam Hussein, Mullah Omar and Milosevic make unconvincing defenders of humanitarian values, and it can be seen that… — Christopher Hitchens 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“As a Nobel Peace laureate, I, like most people, agonize over the use of force. But when it comes to rescuing an… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
“To be a pacifist in the face of evil is to be complicit with evil.” — J.Adam Snyder Copy Share Image
There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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