Military Quote by Rock Cowles

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

— Ammon Hennacy

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

— Joan Baez

Pacifists should stress more and more that it is the rule of law for which they are fighting.

— Fredrik Bajer

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

— George Orwell

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

— Martha Nussbaum

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

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

— John Hospers

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

— A. J. Muste

The goal of pacifism is possible only though a supranational organization. To stand unconditionally for this cause is the criterion of true pacifism.

— Albert Einstein

A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am…

— Robert Anton Wilson

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