#pacifist

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

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

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I'm a pacifist. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#pacifist

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#internationalist #internationally #least #need #nowadays

We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#believe #beyond #feel #gone #i

Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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