Pacifism Quotes

Writers haven't got any rockets to blast off. We don't even trundle the most insignificant auxiliary...

Taking into consideration all your lovelinesswhy can't you burn your bootsoles and yourdraft card? H...

Magistrate: What do you propose to do then, pray?Lysistrata: You ask me that! Why, we propose to adm...

Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil!Lysistrata: If that's all th...

Jesus was a pacifist.

[Nicholson] Baker can't seem to get enough of the wisdom of Gandhi and cites at length an open lette...

That war [Bosnian war] in the early 1990s changed a lot for me. I never thought I would see, in Euro...

She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and t...

Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows.

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Those who attempt to conquer hatred by hatred are like warriors who take weapons to overcome others ...

Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort o...

The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who o...

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of huma...

... it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were...

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people.

It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write wh...

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, ...

I tell you that what has changed is the whole conception of human life- that men of every race on th...

Generally speaking, by the way, that is the moral of the opponents of violence in politics: they ren...

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our p...

I am not a committed pacifist. I would not hold that it is under all imaginable circumstances wrong ...

It was strange to us that none of these three victims made any attempt to resist the attack. Indeed,...

Pacifists have usually regarded the use of violence as absolutely wrong, irrespective of its consequ...

The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for ...

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

...if only the comfortable prosperity of the Victorian age hadn't lulled us into a false conviction ...

Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.