Quotes About Pacifism

Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact, and if the White race decides to wage it no longer, the dark ones will, and will become the masters of the world.

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can't we study peace?

We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army, and disarm the Air Force. I would abolish the whole dreadful equipment of war, and say to the world; 'Do your worst!'

Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists.

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

I come from a family of pacifists, so it's not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or England where you might get sent to Afghanistan next month.

I am against all war.

Peace above all, even above love.

Jesus was a pacifist.

Missandei said the Peaceful People made music instead of war. They did not kill, not even animals; they ate only fruit and never flesh.

Mine is an unarmed people, whose children have never seen a fighter or a tank or a warship.

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

I believe all war to be wholly wrong.

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.

Those who naively credit Gandhi with a conscientious or consistent pacifism might wish to ask if this did not amount to letting the Japanese imperialists do his fighting for him.

What Julia Ward Howe had in mind in 1870 when she invented Mother's Day for Peace was a day on which we oppose war and advance peace.