Died Quote by John Lennon

What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.

— John Lennon

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

— A. J. Muste

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

Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent resistance".

— Dwight Macdonald

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

— George Orwell

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

— Joan Baez

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Ammon Hennacy

Placing a halo around your own head by saying 'I am a pacifist' and 'I don't believe in using violent tactics' doesn't make the…

— Gary Yourofsky

My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Martha Nussbaum

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to…

— Otto Dix