#pacifist

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I? ↗

— Otto Dix

#beside #bullet #dead #directly #experience

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

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

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 am a pacifist. ↗

— Fred Schneider

#i #i am #pacifist

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment. ↗