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“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 wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even the most altruistic nose…

— Anthony Beal

“Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice.”

— Brent Weeks

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

— George Orwell

“Pacifism is a virtue indisguishable from cowardice.”

— Brent Weeks

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

— Vladimir Lenin

“All in all it is difficult not to feel that pacifism, as it appears among a section of the intelligentsia, is secretly inspired by…

— George Orwell

My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from…

— Albert Einstein

“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

The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense in the…

— Dwight Macdonald

In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom…

— George Orwell

Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For…

— George Orwell