131 Quotes About Pacifism

Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

You make war a jest... and send our son as its punchline.

Writers haven't got any rockets to blast off. We don't even trundle the most insignificant auxiliary vehicle. We haven't got any military might. So what can literature do in the face of the merciless onslaught of open violence? One word of truth outweighs the whole world.

Because most of us recognize that we will fight to protect our children, we cannot be absolute pacifists.

There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

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'.

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.