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  • The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

    Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.79, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

    Peace   War   Healing  
    Vera Brittain (1964). “The Rebel Passion: A Short History of Some Pioneer Peacemakers”, London : G. Allen & Unwin
  • 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.

    Doe   Problem   Pacifism  
  • My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

  • The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

    Men   Use   Bullets  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.224, Harvard University Press
  • I know there are some Christians who believe that war and their participation in it are morally wrong. While I respect their views and must allow them to follow their consciences, I do not believe the Bible teaches pacifism.

    Christian   War   Believe  
    Pat Robertson (1984). “Answers to 200 of life's most probing questions”, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Pacifism means letting the non-pacifists have control ... Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact. If the white races are resolved never to wage war again, the colored will act differently and become rulers of the world.

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

  • once your eyes get opened to pacifism, you can't shut them again. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. You may bitterly regret the fact that you happen to be one of the tiny minority of the human race who have caught this angle of vision, but you can't help it.

    Peace   Regret   Eye  
    Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”
  • Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

    Fighting   Men   Sun  
    William Faulkner (2011). “Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner”, p.85, Vintage
  • Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi.

    George Orwell (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized... The churches as a whole were too docile or anti-semitic, and too ignorant of the nonviolent message of the Gospel, to act effectively to resist the Nazis or act in solidarity with the Jews.

    "Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination". Book by Walter Wink (pp. 254-256), 1992.
  • There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

    War   Vices   Essentials  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3606, e-artnow
  • Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent resistance".

    Struggle   May   Way  
    "Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915-1963" by Scott H. Bennett, Syracuse University Press, 2003.
  • I have a great admiration for pacifism, but I'm not a pacifist, mainly because I would defend myself if I were attacked.

    Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.
  • Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just -- and God is with us.

    Believe   Order   Law  
  • 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 is a nice idea but it can get you killed. We're not there yet. Evolution is slow, small pox is fast.

    Nice   Ideas   Comedian  
  • Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.

    War   People   Ends  
    "Einstein on Peace".
  • Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist

    George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”
  • Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics ... the more you are in the right (and) everybody else should be bullied into thinking otherwise.

    Thinking   Mind   Atheism  
    George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.

    War   Government   Europe  
  • My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.247, Princeton University Press
  • Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.

    Real   War   Practice  
    George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”
  • 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.

    Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.285, Vintage
  • 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 (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.258, Princeton University Press
  • Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of peace will beget not peace, but further death and destruction, the very violence the pacifists seek to avoid.

    Peace   War   Names  
  • Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.

    Real   Mean   Feelings  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.52, Penguin
  • 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.

    War   Dark   Race  
  • Fascism, in so far as it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. It thus repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism - born of a renunciation of struggle and an act of cowardice in the face of sacrifice. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the people who have the courage to meet it.

    War   Believe   Struggle  
    " Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and the Resistance in Italy : 1919 to the Present" by Stanislao G. Pugliese, (p. 89), 2004.
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