We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment. — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
Pacifists should stress more and more that it is the rule of law for which they are fighting. — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer. — 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
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I shall die as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian. — Henry Stephens Salt Copy Share Image
I'm not a pacifist. I do believe that, unfortunately, war is necessary. — Mike Hoffman Copy Share Image
You know, if people are not pacifists, it's not their fault. It's because society puts them in that spot. You've got to… — Cesar Chavez 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
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
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
[The conversation with John McCain] is not about being a pacifist or- suggesting that you can never have a military solution to… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“Convince and enemy, convince him that he's wrong, is to win a bloodless battle where victory is long. A simple act of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Your brain sends out vibrations all the time, and your thoughts affect your life and other people's. They pick up these thoughts… — Bruce Lipton Copy Share Image
If you take guns away from legal gun owners then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys.… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
The crime of liberation theology was that it takes the Gospels seriously. That's unacceptable. The Gospels are radical pacifist material, if you… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I am constantly challenged by pessimists who insist that military solutions are the only way to go. This was true in the… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual privilege, racial… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist. — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
Being a pacifist to save your own life is normal, being a pacifist for the lives of others is true pacifism. — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
“I prefer 'buccaneers',' he grinned. 'A small privately funded army of committed peacekeepers. Tough, but fair. Our motto is: We put the… — Cash Peters Copy Share Image
Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
I think these discussions with my father even gave the label of pacifist, particularly with my father, and he mentions this when… — Juan Pablo Escobar 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
I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys.… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I'm not a pacifist at all; I think there is a notion of "just war" that can be persuasively argued. I think… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
“There is no evidence that Jesus himself openly advocated violent actions. But he was certainly no pacifist. “Do not think that I… — Reza Aslan 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
Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image