Doe Quote by John Lennon

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

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

— Ammon Hennacy

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

I'm not a pacifist, but I'm not a violent person. I mean, I have a gun. I shoot guns, but I wouldn't say I…

— David Rasche

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

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

I think these discussions with my father even gave the label of pacifist, particularly with my father, and he mentions this when he turns…

— Juan Pablo Escobar

The idea of it is that these kids are all pacifists but have this obsession with guns, so it's a bit contradictory in the…

— Jamie Bell

Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.

— Adolf Hitler

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

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

— Martha Nussbaum