Pacifism Quotes

“Christian pacifism”

“Nonviolent resistance”

“As I refuse violence, I refuse to serve the violent.”

“The only way to abolish war is to make peace heroic.”

“Kill not, cause no pain. Nonviolence is the greatest religion.”

“You know, Dude, I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in 'Nam of course.”

“pacifism”

“Wikipedia: Pacifism”

“My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting.”

“All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.”

“War is a crime against humanity. We, therefore, are determined not to support any kind of war, and to strive for the removal of all causes of war.”

“Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence.”

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?”

“Non-violence and kindness to living beings is kindness to oneself. For thereby one's own self is saved from various kinds of sins and resultant sufferings and is able to secure his own welfare.”

“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.”

“Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi.”

“To be a pragmatic pacifist, one need only consider that large-scale, organized, and systemic war violence is unacceptable in today's world. Pacifism: A Philosophy of Nonviolence,(2017).”

“It is war that wastes a nation's wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.”

“Pacifism, therefore, is not just an attitude about war, but it entails the belief that God, through Jesus Christ, has inaugurated a history that frees all people from our assumption that we have no moral alternative to war.”

“All that a pacifist can undertake — but it is a very great deal — is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.”