Pacifism Quote by Brent Weeks Download Open image ““Pacifism is a virtue indisguishable from cowardice.”” — Brent Weeks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pacifism Virtue
“Pacifism is a tenable position, provided that you are prepared to live with the consequences.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Going to say it anyway," said Graff. "Poor fool of a boy. Pacifism only works with an enemy that can't bear to do murder… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Being a pacifist to save your own life is normal, being a pacifist for the lives of others is true pacifism. — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I decided that being a peacemaker was a Christian’s role and recommitted to pacifism. But this was a new kind of pacifism for me.… — Kristy Burmeister Copy Share Image
“I find it significant that most military veterans become pacifists.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“life is our battlefield. We must do what we know to do, not what we want to do.” — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes. — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
It's easier for me to write certain character types because of my own life experiences, but I find it too artistically limiting to only… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
“At some point, you have to decide not merely what you're going to believe, but how you're going to believe. Are you going to… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
“... it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable of thought… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what… — Marwan Barghouti Copy Share Image
“I think about something I once heard on the radio. About Abraham and Isaac." "I was afraid you'd say something like that." "You asked."… — A.J. Kazinski Copy Share Image
“Fugitive Peace (Sonnet 2219) In the opera of war, peace is fugitive - thinking soldiers are no good to state, either you kill without… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It is night at the front, a shadow, a shot. The Jew who has just fired hears a moan... "And then, mother, the hair… — Andre Schwarz-Bart Copy Share Image
I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The friends of Galtieri, Saddam Hussein, Mullah Omar and Milosevic make unconvincing defenders of humanitarian values, and it can be seen that their inept… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I know there are some Christians who believe that war and their participation in it are morally wrong. While I respect their views and… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
I'm sort of exploring where pacifism and socialism come into conflict. How do you reconcile a passionate rejection of might and violence with an… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
