The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the — Theodore Roosevelt 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 are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.” — Albert Dietrich Copy Share Image
The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war. — George Bernard Shaw 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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 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
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
“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
“Europe’s reluctance to go to war frustrates some Americans. I believe their relative pacifism is because Europeans know the reality of war,… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
“If [pacifists] imagine that one can somehow "overcome" the German army by lying on one's back, let them go on imagining it,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Writers haven't got any rockets to blast off. We don't even trundle the most insignificant auxiliary vehicle. We haven't got any military… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil,… — George Orwell 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
“We cannot afford the luxury known as conscience. The enemy we are up against certainly doesn't have one, so we are obliged… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
“Saddam's politics was the politics of the thug, of violence from the outset of his reign. Realism suggests that some people are… — Jan Narveson Copy Share Image
“We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because we recognize that the status… — Peter Gelderloos Copy Share Image
“It is night at the front, a shadow, a shot. The Jew who has just fired hears a moan... "And then, mother,… — Andre Schwarz-Bart Copy Share Image
“I decided that being a peacemaker was a Christian’s role and recommitted to pacifism. But this was a new kind of pacifism… — Kristy Burmeister 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
I will not call myself a pacifist for the very simple reason that if something like a [Francisco] Franco should arise in… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
A pacifist has a lot of difficulty reconciling pacifism with scripture. — Mark Driscoll 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 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
“All in all it is difficult not to feel that pacifism, as it appears among a section of the intelligentsia, is secretly… — George Orwell 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
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
![“The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle [World War II], while living on food which British sailors have to risk their lives to bring you, is a bourgeois illusion bred of money and security.” quote by George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ee/george-orwell-57_life_the-idea-that-you-can-somehow-remain-alo_925003.jpg)
![“If [pacifists] imagine that one can somehow "overcome" the German army by lying on one's back, let them go on imagining it, but let them also wonder occasionally whether this is not an illusion due to security, too much money and a simple ignorance of the way in which things actually happen.” quote by George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/009/george-orwell-57_anti-war_if-pacifists-imagine-that-one-can-someho_2532055.jpg)
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