Brutal Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

— Joan Baez

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

Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.

— Adolf Hitler

In actual fact the pacifistic-humane idea is perfectly all right perhaps when the highest type of man has previously conquered and subjected the world…

— Adolf Hitler

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this…

— Benjamin Spock

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

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

— George Orwell

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'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.

— Sherman Alexie