#pacifist

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

#end #fight #go #i #i am

Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues. ↗

— John Keegan

#even #military #pacifist #should #virtues

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

— Walter Kohn

#brother #committed #father #fighting #had

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

#country #his #humanity #most #pacifist

I come from a family of pacifists, so it's not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or England where you might get sent to Afghanistan next month. ↗

— Bill Skarsgard

#come #england #family #get #going

Convince and enemy, convince him that he's wrong, is to win a bloodless battle where victory is long. A simple act of faith, is reason over might, To blow up his children would only prove him right. ↗

— Gordon "Sting" Sumner

#diplomacy #logical-thinking #pacifist #faith

Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians. ↗

— Yves Montand

#like #pacifists #sheep #vegetarians #who

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

— Alice Walker

#die #make #men #pacifist #peaceful

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

#bad #citizen #come #force #ideals

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

#first #folk #folk singer #human #human being