Children Quote by Dennis Prager

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause…

— Vera Brittain

I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may…

— Howard Zinn

I am not a pacifist - I think that violence and self-defence are often morally justified.

— Martha Nussbaum

“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

I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere,…

— Graham Greene

I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too much weight…

— Paul Bloom

Being a pacifist to save your own life is normal, being a pacifist for the lives of others is true pacifism.

— Ammon Hennacy

The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.

— Walter Benjamin

“Moreover [pacifists] do not as a rule condemn violence as such, but only violence used in defence of western countries”

— George Orwell

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

— Theodore Roosevelt

If someone is killing, on a regular basis, thousands of animals, and if that person can only be stopped in one way by the…

— Jerry Vlasak

“In humanism, murder is bad not because of a commandment against it, but because of the terrible suffering it causes the victim’s loved ones.”

— GBF Summary