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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
![“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)
