Quotes Tagged With :pacifism

Pacifists have usually regarded the use of violence as absolutely wrong, irrespective of its consequences.....

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

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
 all that we have been able to teach them of charity,....

If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war.....

The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for some,....

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

[Nicholson] Baker can't seem to get enough of the wisdom of Gandhi and cites at length an open letter....

I tell you that what has changed is the whole conception of human life- that men of every race on this....

Saddam's politics was the politics of the thug, of violence from the outset of his reign. Realism suggests....

As a Nobel Peace laureate, I, like most people, agonize over the use of force. But when it comes to rescuing....