Pacifist Quotes · Page 2

“Gandhi Topi' is no longer an attire of the pacifist.”

— Mukesh Kwatra

Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.

— John Keegan

What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.

— Utah Phillips

Pacifism only works for the protected.

— Rock Cowles

A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.

— Ammon Hennacy

The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry.

— Bill Mauldin

I am not a pacifist in terms of turning the other cheek.

— Amos Oz

Nobody who's ever been to Gulag is a pacifist.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

I'm kind of a pacifist, I don't really believe in imaginary bloodshed.

— Paul Rudd

I have a great admiration for pacifism, but I'm not a pacifist, mainly because I would defend myself if I were attacked.

— Murray Bookchin

Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

— William Faulkner

At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.

— Polly Horvath

What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.

— John Lennon

[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It was the kind of sword that would make a lifelong pacifist look for tall boots and a hat with feathers.

— Ilona Andrews

I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.

— Pierre Trudeau

“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

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

I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of…

— Howard Zinn

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

I am not a pacifist and I would back a lawful, coherent and compelling case for the use of military force by…

— Keir Starmer

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

For realists, war is like surgery-a painful and dangerous activity that is sometimes necessary ... A pacifist is like a Christian Scientist…

— Michael Lind

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

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

The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense…

— Dwight Macdonald

The pacifist thinks that the alternative to war is peace; it is not. Sometimes the alternative is oppression. Sometimes certain God-given rights…

— Fulton J. Sheen

My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social…

— Jane Addams

Gandhi was such an important figure to the pacifists of the '30s, and he was such an extraordinary embodiment of nonviolence, that…

— Nicholson Baker

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

So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against (Einstein). He does truly stand for what…

— John Maynard Keynes

As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano…

— Subcomandante Marcos

As a Quaker, I aspire to be a pacifist.

— Sheila Hancock

I think that religions must seek peace and love and therefore be pacifist.

— Pierre Trudeau

Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.

— Yannick Noah

I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

— Bruce Cockburn

Being a pacifist to save your own life is normal, being a pacifist for the lives of others is true pacifism.

— Ammon Hennacy

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

— Freya Stark

“One way or another, we all fight for what we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?”

— Anonymous

I'm not a pacifist. I do believe that, unfortunately, war is necessary.

— Mike Hoffman