Causes Quote by Albert Einstein

Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of…

— Adam Michnik

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

— Ammon Hennacy

“The main problem with pacifism is that it doesn’t work in all situations. The main problem with pacifists is that they’re convinced it does.”

— Burt Prelutsky

“Pacifism is a tenable position, provided that you are prepared to live with the consequences.”

— George Orwell

Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of…

— David Limbaugh

“Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice.”

— Brent Weeks

Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent resistance".

— Dwight Macdonald

My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Pacifism is a virtue indisguishable from cowardice.”

— Brent Weeks

Pacifism only works for the protected.

— Rock Cowles

“We cannot afford the luxury known as conscience. The enemy we are up against certainly doesn't have one, so we are obliged to be…

— John Brunner

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

— Joan Baez