Quotes About Pacifism

It means using such means as civil disobedience, outspoken criticism, protest, pacifism, voluntary poverty and even gentle violence if it comes to a matter of restraining some impetuous redneck.

War will end when people stop showing up for it.

My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.

Given the tendency of nations, particularly great powers, to engage in war unjustifiably and to set in motion the apparatus of the state to suppress dissent, the respect accorded to pacifism serves the purpose of alerting citizens to the wrongs that governments are prone to commit in their name.

Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.

Those who abjure violence can only do so by others committing violence on their behalf.

In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism.

All in all it is difficult not to feel that pacifism, as it appears among a section of the intelligentsia, is secretly inspired by an admiration for power and successful cruelty.

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

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth

I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there is a world of difference.

It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as Utopian proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for war.

I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.

The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.

I hate guns, I think they're the worst thing ever invented.

Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise - that there are causes worth suffering and dying for.

I believe that there should be a way of archieving peace other than fighting. Jacen

Yo siento mucho no coincidir con el pacifismo contemporáneo en su antipatía hacia la fuerza; sin ella no habría habido nada de lo que más nos importa en el pasado, y si la excluimos del porvenir sólo podremos imaginar una humanidad caótica. Pero también es cierto que con sólo la fuerza no se ha hecho nunca cosa que merezca la pena.

asked Shoto about it, he told me it was a conscious choice by the game's creators, to promote pacifism and nonviolence. "Wow," Aech said. "A nonviolent game about killing people with knives. Genius.

I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race—I am ashamed to belong to such a species.

Who believes today that war can be abolished? No one, not even pacifists.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

It's not my intention to have anything at all to do with violence.