(10 quotes found)
“Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.”
Colman McCarthy
“There was England. And then there was the United States. If the pacifist betrayers of the West had not been so powerful in the 1930s and Western governments had confronted Hitler early, 70 million lives would have been saved. Americans would do well to remember this now.”
David Horowitz
“It's funny how most activists are pacifists.”
Craig Bruce
“The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry.”
William H. Mauldin
“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
“We have tried to provide a real image of ancient Persia. According to historical documents, Persians were pacifist and showed a great tolerance in their encounter with foreign beliefs and religions.”
John Curtis
“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.”
Vera Brittain (Mary)
“There are still some significant differences of opinion. But a century ago, pacifists were guilty of a great deal of naivety.”
Markus Furrer
“Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.”
Yves Montand
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