[A.J. Muste] never engaged in violence but he believed, as [Mahatma] Gandhi did - and he knew Gandhi slightly - he believed… — Nat Hentoff 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
A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. — Vera Brittain 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
A film that I love is 'Deliverance' from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters - the hero,… — Frank Grillo Copy Share Image
Theres no way that I could be the president. You cant have a pacifist in the White House... Im an actor. This… — Martin Sheen 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
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
If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
One who loves must learn fear. One who fears must learn love. The thinker must do. The doer must think. The pacifist… — Menachem Mendel Schneerson Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Sadly and criminally, many self-indulgent inactive pacifists have shunned me for being an outspoken supporter of X's 'by any means necessary' philosophy,… — Gary Yourofsky 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
Placing a halo around your own head by saying 'I am a pacifist' and 'I don't believe in using violent tactics' doesn't… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
I've never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan - I had to be the pacifist… — Bjork 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
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
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left,… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I'm a pacifist. I believe there are ways to solve the world's problems. Instead of putting all this money to create arms,… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
In the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, as in so many later conflicts, British women seem to have been no more… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I will not call myself a pacifist for the very simple reason that if something like a [Francisco] Franco should arise in… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they… — Noam Chomsky 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
Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“A veritable pacifist when it comes to social guilds or luncheon clubs, I turn into something of a militant on the subject… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
I said, "OK, Ammon [Hennacy], I will try that." He said, "You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
I began to feel that my greatest sense of success would raise the level of masses of people, rather than the individual… — Ella Baker 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
A serious pacifist approach can't win wars against enemies whose only program is violence. That doesn't mean I think the US has… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
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