Life Quote by Ammon Hennacy

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

— Martha Nussbaum

I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere,…

— Graham Greene

I'm a pacifist by nature.

— Rafael Correa

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

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

— Joan Baez

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

Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.

— Kathe Kollwitz

Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.

— Adolf Hitler

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

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