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The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

— Freya Stark

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

— A. J. Muste

It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and seafaring are…

— Freya Stark

You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual privilege, racial privilege. You…

— Utah Phillips

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

— Joan Baez

“Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice.”

— Brent Weeks

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

“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 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

“The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not to follow…

— George Orwell

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