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.
Quotes about pacifism (8 Quotes)
There was only one virtue, pugnacity only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there is a world of difference. Gandhi resisted evil with as much vigor and power as the violent resister, but True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to evil power. It is rather a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love....
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.
The world is topsy-turvy, and it needs our conserving strength and influence. Pacifism has gone into discard and is no longer to be feared.
Only a surge in pacifism could dislodge Integrated Defense Tech's IPO and the current war in Afghanistan will likely keep that fear in check. Love will probably not rear its head to ruin this deal, ... We are counting on the world keeping its love in check.
Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even the most altruistic nose in a steaming pile of Fk that.
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.