Pacifism Quotes

Naturally the common people don't want war ... but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

All you have to do is tell them they're being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger.

Even in war moral power is to physical as three parts out of four.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.

You may not like to go to war, but war will come to you.

Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

Of course the people don't want war... It is the leaders...who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along...all you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

They will be lions while we are lambs: but if we take the resolute part, they will undoubtedly prove very meek.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: war is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst

Defeat [in World War II] was better for the nation than if we had become extremely militaristic as a result of victory.

A man does not fight to win; it is better to fight in vain.

Make Love, Not War

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

War’s very object is victory—not prolonged indecision.

My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

It must be thoroughly understood that war is a necessity, and that the more readily we accept it, the less will be the ardor of our opponents.

Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled or uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of the people.

We make war that we may live in peace.