Pacifist Quotes
83 Pacifist quotes by 69 unique authors
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Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament…
— Ludwig Quidde
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We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.
— Ludwig Quidde
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As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro,…
— Subcomandante Marcos
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Jesus was a pacifist.
— Chris Hedges
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It's funny how most activists are pacifists.
— Craig Reucassel
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It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they were during the…
— Noam Chomsky
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A pacifist has a lot of difficulty reconciling pacifism with scripture.
— Mark Driscoll
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Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited upon…
— Stefan Zweig
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A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think…
— Christian Lous Lange
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Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of peace…
— David Limbaugh
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We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
— Joan Baez
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Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually…
— Criss Jami
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I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
— Bruce Cockburn
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A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to…
— Adolf Hitler
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I'm really a pacifist.
— Oliver Reed
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I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience…
— Otto Dix
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I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists -…
— Martin Van Creveld
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Pacifism means letting the non-pacifists have control ... Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact. If the white races are resolved never to wage…
— Oswald Spengler
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I come from a family of pacifists, so it's not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or…
— Bill Skarsgard
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I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves…
— Albert Einstein
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We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was…
— Paul McCartney
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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war…
— Benjamin Spock
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From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
— Gloria Steinem
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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
— Alice Walker
Who Wrote These Pacifist Quotes
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