I am Quote by Martha Nussbaum

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'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

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

— Ammon Hennacy

“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

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

“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

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 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

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

— John Hospers

I personally am not a total pacifist. I do believe there is such a thing as a just war. I believe, for instance, the…

— Marianne Williamson

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