Quotes about Pacifism

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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. — G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for. — Albert Dietrich, Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank and Albert Dietrich
Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down. — Malcolm X
No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war. — Eleanor Roosevelt, The Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt
Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you auto — George Orwell
Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity — Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life — George Orwell
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a w — George Orwell, 1984
Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely us — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
 all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. — Julia Ward Howe
It was strange to us that none of these three victims made any attempt to resist the attack. Indeed, not one inhabitant — Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker
I am not a committed pacifist. I would not hold that it is under all imaginable circumstances wrong to use violence, eve — Noam Chomsky
I think about something I once heard on the radio. About Abraham and Isaac.""I was afraid you'd say something like that. — A.J. Kazinski, The Last Good Man
Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting. — William Faulkner, The Unvanquished
That war [Bosnian war] in the early 1990s changed a lot for me. I never thought I would see, in Europe, a full-dress rep — Christopher Hitchens
As a Nobel Peace laureate, I, like most people, agonize over the use of force. But when it comes to rescuing an innocent — José Ramos-Horta, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq
Sometimes, a war saves people. — José Ramos-Horta, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq
Saddam's politics was the politics of the thug, of violence from the outset of his reign. Realism suggests that some peo — Jan Narveson, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq
Where would the world be if we took every man to book? There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced tha — Erich Maria Remarque
I tell you that what has changed is the whole conception of human life- that men of every race on this earth may have th — Kenneth Patchen