Pacifist Quotes

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.
Albert Einstein

Peace, War, End

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

Humanity, Country, Traitor

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

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.
Paul McCartney

Kids, Immature, Gone

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

Person, May, Violence

I'm really a pacifist.
Oliver Reed

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

Bad, Justice, Used

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

Between, Everyone, Vegetarian

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.
Joan Baez

Human, Put, Second

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 Lange

History, Often, Shows

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.
Martin Sheen

Living, President, Actor

Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.
John Keegan

Military, Admire, Virtues

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

Short, Warrior, Cracked

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.
Benjamin Spock

War, Against, Steal

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

End, Number, Toward

I'm a pacifist.
Joel Edgerton

I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
Bruce Cockburn

Fighting, Looking, Situations

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?
Otto Dix

Experience, Someone, Him

I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
Karl Marlantes

Thinking, Kids, Off

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

War, Father, Lost

I am a pacifist.
Fred Schneider

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