Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact, and if the White race decides to wage it no longer, the dark ones… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“Why is it acceptable to do such horrible things in the name of staying alive? Would it not have been better had… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
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 goal of pacifism is possible only though a supranational organization. To stand unconditionally for this cause is the criterion of true… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“I find it significant that most of the people who believe in just war have never fought in one; examples: Barack W.… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
I'm sort of exploring where pacifism and socialism come into conflict. How do you reconcile a passionate rejection of might and violence… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The very thought that war can ever be justified, let alone desirable or even noble, is quite honestly the greatest deception that… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to see how Gandhi's methods could be applied in a country where opponents of the regime disappear in the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In foreign politics many intellectuals follow the principle that any faction backed by Britain must be in the wrong. As a result,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
In actual fact the pacifistic-humane idea is perfectly all right perhaps when the highest type of man has previously conquered and subjected… — Adolf Hitler 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
My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Sure, intellectually, she knew that pacifism was the superior way of life. The problem was that it was a lot like communism… — Evan C. Currie Copy Share Image
My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The young officers who had come back [from WW1], hardened by their terrible experience and disgusted by the attitude of the younger… — George Orwell 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
“I am not a committed pacifist. I would not hold that it is under all imaginable circumstances wrong to use violence, even… — Noam Chomsky 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
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
As a result of the Left's sympathetic views of pacifism and because almost no welfare state can afford a strong military, European… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
“We'd be the safest country in the world if the world knew we didn't have a gun. Men are not killed because… — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
“Should an individual or a government use force at all, even in retaliation? Clearly yes; complete pacifism is self-defeating.” — John Hospers Copy Share Image
“Is it morally acceptable to murder one hundred innocent people in the process of catching a serial killer who has murdered ten… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
“Those times you caught them out and showed them up -- they learned how stupid they are. But now you'll never hear… — William Edgar Stafford Copy Share Image
“Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil! Lysistrata: If that's all that troubles you,… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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