Quotes About Pacifism

What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.

I am a pacifist.

I'm a pacifist.

I'm basically a pacifist.

The concept of patriotism is not incompatible with that of humanity; on the contrary, let me state emphatically that he who best serves pacifism serves patriotism best. The nation is and can be no more than the vital basic unit of any international league.

He slid out drawers from the cabinet and pulled cards from the drawers, one after another. 'Henry Kissinger: war!''' 'Ornette Coleman: music!' 'Che Guevara: war!' 'Jeff Bezos: money!' 'Philip Guston: art!' 'Mahatma Gandhi: war!' 'But he was a pacifist', I said. 'Right! War!

My message is all about peace.

I'm against all war.

Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

I don't just want to ban The Bomb. I want to ban all bombs, whatever, and all bombers, whoever, and all bombings, whyever. There have to be better ways of saying no and making changes.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Now were it up to me, I would abolish all warfare.

I think that is a noble goal that all of us should seek, to end wars and prevent wars as much as possible.

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.

I never fought much. It just wasn't my thing. I suppose I could, but I've never got into fights. Not a real one.

At the opposite end of the spectrum from pacifism, we have a pusillanimous reluctance to use religious names for warring factions. In Northern Ireland, Catholics and Protestants are euphemized to 'Nationalists' and 'Loyalists' respectively.

You can be a brilliant moral philosopher with a prize-winning doctoral thesis expounding the evils of war, and still be given a hard time by a draft board evaluating your claim to be a conscientious objector. Yet if you can say that one or both of your parents is a Quaker you sail through like a breeze, no matter how inarticulate and illiterate you may be on the theory of pacifism or, indeed, Quakerism itself.

Sylvie was surprised by the rabid patriotism of the women on the platform, surely war should make pacifists of all women?

Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.

I dreamed I saw a mighty room, the room was filled with men. And the paper they were signing said they'd never fight again.

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

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

I'd rather teach peace.