Benefits Quote by Graham Greene

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

— Vera Brittain

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

— Ammon Hennacy

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

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

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

— Joan Baez

I do have an intense respect for pacifists, because I believe that ultimately, if we are to have a truly humanistic as well as…

— Murray Bookchin

I'm not a pacifist at all; I think there is a notion of "just war" that can be persuasively argued. I think in the…

— Cornel West

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

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but…

— John Lennon

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

— A. J. Muste