Pacifism Quotes
Pacifism Quote of the day
They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.
Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact, and if the White race decides to wage it no longer, the dark ones will, and will become the masters of the world.
Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay; and claims a halo for his dishonesty.
We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.
A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.
Being a pacifist to save your own life is normal, being a pacifist for the lives of others is true pacifism.
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.
The goal of pacifism is possible only though a supranational organization. To stand unconditionally for this cause is the criterion of true pacifism.
There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.
Pacifism is a nice idea but it can get you killed. We're not there yet. Evolution is slow, small pox is fast.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.
Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent resistance".
Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could.
Wild Goose exemplifies how the Evangelical Left translates 'social justice' into Big Government and pacifism.
The main problem with pacifism is that it doesn’t work in all situations. The main problem with pacifists is that they’re convinced it does.
There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker.
I have a great admiration for pacifism, but I'm not a pacifist, mainly because I would defend myself if I were attacked.
The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.
No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace.
There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.
Sometimes, a war saves people.
Where would the world be if we took every man to book? There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best- in a way that cost them nothing.
We being satiate with continual wars, let the desire of peace a little move us.
If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war.
Because most of us recognize that we will fight to protect our children, we cannot be absolute pacifists.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
If I went on a killing spree that left thousands of people dead, I'd be branded as the worst kind of criminal. So why it is okay for the government to do exactly that?
So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people.
There is no such thing as a "just" war. It's just war. And it's antithetical to the Gospel.
We'd be the safest country in the world if the world knew we didn't have a gun. Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one has a gun.
All beings tremble before danger, all fear death. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill.
