Attitude Quote by Hal Duncan

Fascism, in so far as it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment,…

— Benito Mussolini

Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of…

— George Orwell

The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.

— Hal Duncan

Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist

— George Orwell

If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without…

— Errico Malatesta

“Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice.”

— Brent Weeks

“Pacifism is a virtue indisguishable from cowardice.”

— Brent Weeks

The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense in the…

— Dwight Macdonald

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

— George Orwell

“Pacifism is a psychological curiosity rather than a political movement. Some of the extremer pacifists, starting out with a complete renunciation of violence, have…

— George Orwell

“Should an individual or a government use force at all, even in retaliation? Clearly yes; complete pacifism is self-defeating.”

— John Hospers

“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