Pacifist Quotes

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If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the… — Joan Baez
As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when… — Ned Rorem
Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other… — Alfred Nobel
Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is… — Hermann Goring
My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain… — Henry Ford
I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a… — Albert Einstein
If you take guns away from legal gun owners then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist… — Bruce Willis
They just want to continue playing their little game of power. And I feel that us people have the responsibility and also the obligation to… — Shakira
I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what every… — Marwan Barghouti
At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists. — Polly Horvath
When are we left-wingers going to learn that we are losing the cultural and political battle with conservatives because we are fractured into narcissistic special-interest… — Sherman Alexie
I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting. — Albert Einstein
Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not… — Fredrik Bajer
Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous… — Oswald Spengler
You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual privilege, racial privilege. You want… — Utah Phillips
Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues. — John Keegan
In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist. — A J Muste
My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist. — Walter Kohn
Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a pacifist.… — Mancur Olson
I have always hated war and am by nature and philosophy a pacifist, but it is the English who are forcing war on us, and… — Constance Markievicz

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