Best 24 quotes in «pacifist quotes» category

Someone once told me a joke," he said. "I'd like to be a pacifist, but people keep getting in the way.' I made a decision to fight for my friend in prison. It was a deliberate decision. It isn't the only way-it's just something I decided.

One way or another, we all fight for what we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?

To be a pacifist in the face of evil is to be complicit with evil.

A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.

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

A.J. [Muste] was a - as he likes to say, a radical pacifist.

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

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

I am not a pacifist, however I do believe that the U.S. tends to resort to force too quickly. I am not referring only to the current administration; the same thing happened in the Balkans, and on other occasions.

I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.

Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.

I shall die as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian.

Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.

I think that religions must seek peace and love and therefore be pacifist.

Gandhi Topi' is no longer an attire of the pacifist.

Convince and enemy, convince him that he's wrong, is to win a bloodless battle where victory is long. A simple act of faith, is reason over might, To blow up his children would only prove him right.

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.

As a citizen of the world, I stand only with Truth and my conscience is my only leader. This is the only way to peace and justice on earth. To always do the right thing, be the right person, and stand with whoever is right always and forever.

In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private conversation he was wont to say that homicidal lunatics were well employed in killing each other, but that sensible men would keep out of their way while they were doing it. Fortunately this outlook, which is reminiscent of Bentham, has become rare in this age, which recognizes that heroism has a value independent of its utility. The Last Survivor of a Dead Epoch

I do what I do because I love God, as I love your children, as I love humanity, as I love peace, truth, and justice for all. I may not be a fan of religion, but I am a big fan of God. I choose not to subscribe to any one religion because I recognize truths in them all — both the truths and flaws. For anybody to believe that any father would want to see his children fighting is madness. It does not make the Creator happy to see anybody massacre any of his beautiful creations. If you must know the religion I choose, I choose LOVE. If you must know the name of my god, his name is Truth, or rather 'He Who is One, The One Who is All.

I prefer 'buccaneers',' he grinned. 'A small privately funded army of committed peacekeepers. Tough, but fair. Our motto is: We put the fist in 'pacifist'.

Love has turned many into poets; pain has turned many into artists; charity has turned many into pacifists, and anger has turned many into activists.