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Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force. — George Orwell

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for. — Mahatma Gandhi

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business. — Albert Einstein

... nobody can live longer in peace than his neighbor chooses. — James Branch Cabell

Pacifism is a virtue indisguishable from cowardice. — Brent Weeks

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless. — Henry A. Kissinger

All beings tremble before danger, all fear death. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill. — Anonymous

There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for. — Albert Dietrich

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

Sometimes, a war saves people. — Jose Ramos-Horta

The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice. — Adolf Hitler

As long as it is assumed that war is always an available option, we will not be forced to imagine any alternative to war. — Stanley Hauerwas

War is just a damn nuisance. — Mark Hanna

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class. — Vladimir Lenin

I find it significant that most of the people who believe in just war have never fought in one; examples: Barack W. Bush and George H. Obama. — Michel Templet

Jesus was a pacifist. — Chris Hedges

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

I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace. — Michel Templet

Wild Goose exemplifies how the Evangelical Left translates 'social justice' into Big Government and pacifism. — Mark Tooley

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

Surely there is nothing so ungracious, nor nothing so cruel, but men will hold therewith, if it be once approved by custom. — Desiderius Erasmus

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred. — Albert Einstein

Say what you want but you NEVER say it with violence! — Gerard Way

And do you know another thing, Arthur? Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds. — T.H. White

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win. — Howard Zinn

There is no such thing as a "war hero", because there is nothing about war that is heroic. — Michel Templet

If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

Pacifism is a nice idea but it can get you killed. We're not there yet. Evolution is slow, small pox is fast. — George Carlin

Why is it acceptable to do such horrible things in the name of staying alive? Would it not have been better had I died with my innocence intact? — Michel Templet

King abhorred slavery. But he struggled over how to fight it while remaining true to the religious pacifism he had inherited from his grandmother. — Martha A. Sandweiss

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

We being satiate with continual wars, let the desire of peace a little move us. — Desiderius Erasmus

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. — Burt Prelutsky

Perhaps you couldn't help being angry... but you could certainly stop yourself from repaying one offense with another. — Gail Carson Levine

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

Having been to war myself, I do not understand why so many people are so in love with it. — Michel Templet

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war. — George Bernard Shaw

Because most of us recognize that we will fight to protect our children, we cannot be absolute pacifists. — Nel Noddings

Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing. — Harry J. Anslinger

People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

If it should happen you wake up and Armageddon has come, lie still. — William Stafford

The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system. — Hal Duncan

Pacifism, not murder, is precedent. To say that war presupposes peace begs the question; it does not explain how violent impulses can be overcome. In — Sarah LaChance Adams

When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias. — Michel Templet

It's not that he's choosing me, a girl he met less than a month ago
he's choosing a world in which no one has to die. — Amie Kaufman

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. — D.L. Moody

A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals. — Ammon Hennacy

I find it significant that most military veterans become pacifists. — Michel Templet

Pacifism is the transitory luxury of a people whose security has been earned by the bravery and militarism of earlier generations. — Bruce Thornton

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

Love does not imply pacifism. — Derrick Jensen

Nonviolence is the very essence of the gospels. — Helene Iswolsky

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

I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last. — David Bowie

As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it's highly unlikely we'll ever have peace. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity — Stephen King

Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice. — Brent Weeks

Nothing doth worse become a man (I will not say a Christian man) than war. — Desiderius Erasmus

The idea that war can ever bring freedom is quite possibly the greatest deception that mankind has ever forced upon himself. — Michel Templet

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

Pacifism is a tenable position, provided that you are prepared to live with the consequences. — George Orwell

I think it's good to smile at everybody so that everyone knows you love everyone. It's good for human pacifism. — Aimee Bender

A pacifist has a lot of difficulty reconciling pacifism with scripture. — Mark Driscoll

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