131 Quotes About Pacifism

If I went on a killing spree that left thousands of people dead, I'd be branded as the worst kind of criminal. So why it is okay for the government to do exactly that?

For,” the outsider will say, “in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country.

The more ideology becomes pacifistic, the more militaristic become the ideologists.

He who thinks of renouncing "physical" struggle must renounce all struggle, for the spirit does not live without the flesh.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

Love does not imply pacifism.

If the counsel of the peaceniks had been followed, Kuwait would today be the nineteenth province of Iraq. Bosnia would be a trampled and cleansed province of Greater Serbia, Kosovo would have been emptied of most of its inhabitants, and the Taliban would still be in power in Afghanistan. Yet nothing seems to disturb the contented air of moral superiority of those that intone the "peace movement".

There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker.

If it should happen you wake up and Armageddon has come, lie still.