Pacifist Quotes

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.

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

We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.

There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House... I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living.

I'm a pacifist.

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

I am a pacifist.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

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

I'm really a pacifist.

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?

Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.

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

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

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

Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.