In the sixties, during the Vietnam war, when anarchists and pacifists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, decent-hearted Americans, all recoiled with horror… — Pete Seeger 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
I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy. When Obama wanted to bomb… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
I think that religions must seek peace and love and therefore be pacifist. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I'm not a pacifist. I do believe that, unfortunately, war is necessary. — Mike Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Someone once told me a joke," he said. "I'd like to be a pacifist, but people keep getting in the way.' I… — Edeet Ravel Copy Share Image
It was the kind of sword that would make a lifelong pacifist look for tall boots and a hat with feathers. — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
A pacifist male is a contradiction in terms. Most self-described "pacifists" are not pacific; they simply assume false colors. When the wind… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a… — Robert A. Heinlein 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
Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to the bidding of their… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
I do have an intense respect for pacifists, because I believe that ultimately, if we are to have a truly humanistic as… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I shall die as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian. — Henry Stephens Salt Copy Share Image
The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense… — Dwight Macdonald Copy Share Image