Danger Quote by William Faulkner

You know, if people are not pacifists, it's not their fault. It's because society puts them in that spot. You've got to change it.…

— Cesar Chavez

A pacifist male is a contradiction in terms. Most self-described "pacifists" are not pacific; they simply assume false colors. When the wind changes, they…

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Joan Baez

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

— Ammon Hennacy

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

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

— Fredrik Bajer

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

— Martha Nussbaum

At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.

— Polly Horvath

Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

— Ludwig von Mises

It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and seafaring are…

— Freya Stark

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

— George Orwell

What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.

— Utah Phillips