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Quotes About Pacifist

State and politics cannot be exterminated. . . For the application of such means, a new and essentially pacifist vocabulary has been created. War is condemned but executions, sanctions, punitive expeditions, pacifications, protection of treaties, international police, and measure to assure peace remain. The adversary is thus no longer called an enemy but a disturber of peace and is thereby designated to be an outlaw of humanity.
~ Carl Schmitt
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'.
~ Cash Peters
Bye-bye, Elan. P.S., Next time you implicate someone falsely, try to pick a pacifist.
~ J.R. Ward
My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
~ Walter Kohn
I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.
~ Wendy Doniger
From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
~ Gloria Steinem
I consistently found the pacifist dream intimately connected with the dream of wealth redistribution. My fellow dreamers and I thought we had better ideas than did the masses we imagined we were protecting. In our hubris we thought we were embodying great intelligence and common sense that surpassed all traditional ideas.
~ Thomas C. Oden
Chumbawamba, a British pop group who promoted Marxist pacifist anarchy, had a massive Top 10 single about getting drunk and falling down.
~ Chuck Klosterman
I am not a confrontational person. I have never had a fight in my life - neither with a man nor a girl.
~ Hrithik Roshan
Who else but a pacifist would attack somebody as little as Wiggin?
~ Orson Scott Card
I am the same ardent pacifist I was before. But I believe that we can advocate refusing military service only when the military threat from aggressive dictatorships toward democratic countries has ceased to exist."66
~ Walter Isaacson
So Germany in the 1920s was not a good place or time to be an internationalist, pacifist, intellectual Jew.
~ Walter Isaacson
I grew up in a very urban, bohemian family where everyone was a hippie or a pacifist. It was artistically and intellectually stimulating, but they were definitely not into outdoor sports or activities.
~ Alexander Skarsgard
Like some waterhole in the veldt, she though unclearly, where the weak and the strong and predatory drink together in a truce: the gazelle, the wildebeest, the mafadet, and the lion. All the possibilities lined up together in fucking harmony, and the winner, the strongest, the fact, the real, letting the others that have failed live, letting them all live. Pacifist and pathetic.
~ China Mieville
Celsus was the first known person to realize that this non-political, quietist, and pacifist community had it in its power to transform the social and political order of the empire.
~ Henry Chadwick
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.
~ Vera Brittain
Besides a Scientist Marion is also a Pacifist and an Atheist. This means she is basically against most things, such as War, Sports, and God.
~ David James Duncan
When it comes to fighting evil, the left is almost pacifist.
~ Dennis Prager
From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
~ Gloria Steinem
I don't believe there will be anyone who will use violence or who will want to provoke violence that will tarnish the irreproachable image of the Catalan independence movement as pacifist.
~ Carles Puigdemont
I'm not a violent person.
~ Manute Bol
Yeah, says the Newsday reporter, he's a real pacifist. He's the Gandhi of Gangsters.
~ Unknown
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout
~ Alice Walker