“I find it significant that most military veterans become pacifists.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“The main problem with pacifism is that it doesn’t work in all situations. The main problem with pacifists is that they’re convinced… — Burt Prelutsky Copy Share Image
“Moreover [pacifists] do not as a rule condemn violence as such, but only violence used in defence of western countries” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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
Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists.… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
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
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
“All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and… — Hermann Goering 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
“Pacifism is a psychological curiosity rather than a political movement. Some of the extremer pacifists, starting out with a complete renunciation of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“world full of pacifists,” Dika replied. “But I want to meet a boy someday. Something about that just feels really right, you… — E. William Brown Copy Share Image
pacifists lead a lonely life. Not even gathering together can take the place of that vast, warm sun of approval that is… — Josephine Winslow Johnson 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
“We cannot afford the luxury known as conscience. The enemy we are up against certainly doesn't have one, so we are obliged… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
“Fred Rogers richly deserves a place in the pantheon of pacifists who tried to shake the foundations of society and culture. To… — Michael G. Long 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
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
“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
German people are essentially pacifists. Many still remember the experience of World War II. And they may not have seen Saddam Hussein… — George W. Bush 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
Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting. — William Faulkner 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
“We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with. But… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
“I'm reasonably certain, salmon, swordfish, and hammerhead sharks do not find themselves paralyzed by spasms of self-blame for their plight - What… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
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