Pacifist Quotes

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

Jesus was a pacifist.

The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry.

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?

I'm really a pacifist.

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

I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.

I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.

I'm not a pacifist. I'm not that brave.

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.

I am not a pacifist, however I do believe that the U.S. tends to resort to force too quickly. I am not referring only to the current administration; the same thing happened in the Balkans, and on other occasions.

I shall die as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian.

[A.J. Muste] never engaged in violence but he believed, as [Mahatma] Gandhi did - and he knew Gandhi slightly - he believed that a pacifist had to be active in the community.

A.J. [Muste] was a - as he likes to say, a radical pacifist.

I'm not a pacifist. I do believe that, unfortunately, war is necessary.

I have a great admiration for pacifism, but I'm not a pacifist, mainly because I would defend myself if I were attacked.