Armament Quote by Ludwig Quidde

Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of…

— Ludwig Quidde

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

— George Orwell

Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of…

— David Limbaugh

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

— Ludwig Quidde

Disarmament should be conducive to the enhancement of every country's general security instead of becoming the instrument and means for a few countries to…

— Sha Zukang

Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace.

— Ben Macintyre

The pacifist thinks that the alternative to war is peace; it is not. Sometimes the alternative is oppression. Sometimes certain God-given rights and liberties…

— Fulton J. Sheen

More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.

— Alva Myrdal

Disarmament requires trust.

— Gustav Heinemann

My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that…

— Henry Ford