Force Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

— A. J. Muste

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Howard Zinn

I am not a pacifist - I think that violence and self-defence are often morally justified.

— Martha Nussbaum

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

— Ammon Hennacy

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

— Joan Baez

While I am a convinced pacifist there are circumstances in which I believe the use of force is appropriate - namely, in the face…

— Albert Einstein

“Should an individual or a government use force at all, even in retaliation? Clearly yes; complete pacifism is self-defeating.”

— John Hospers

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

“I am not a committed pacifist. I would not hold that it is under all imaginable circumstances wrong to use violence, even though use…

— Noam Chomsky

I do have an intense respect for pacifists, because I believe that ultimately, if we are to have a truly humanistic as well as…

— Murray Bookchin

I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too much weight…

— Paul Bloom