opposition to violence Quotes

Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist

It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions. It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.

I can tell you as a leader of a party that I'm fundamentally opposed to violence, fundamentally opposed to any innocent lives being taken, fundamentally opposed to any violence being perpetrated against people.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.

The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.