Pacifism quotes

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◆ Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

- Thomas Jefferson100

◆ Marijuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing.

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◆ The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

- Theodore Roosevelt99

◆ Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists. During the war they gave a large-scale refutation of this charge, and the vote was given to them for their share in the bloody

- Bertrand Russell99

◆ The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the

- Theodore Roosevelt99

◆ Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.

- Colman McCarthy99

◆ The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout

- Alice Walker99

◆ The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals

- Alfred North Whitehead99

◆ Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even the most altruistic nose in a steaming pile of "F**k that".

- Anthony Beal99

◆ The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

- Alfred North Whitehead99

◆ 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.

- Ludwig Quidde99

◆ A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.

- Christian Lous Lange99

◆ It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

- Craig Bruce99

◆ Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.

- John Keegan99

◆ Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.

- Fredrik Bajer99