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 pacifists (16 Quotes)
But our founders were not pacifists. They knew there would be times when force must be met by force.
This movie asks, when is violence ever justified And it makes us wary of labels like terrorism. Obviously most people, unless they're Gandhi-like pacifists, can imagine some situation in which violence is a justifiable means to overcome injustice. It makes us realize that it's subjective you have to agree with the cause in order to justify the violence.
Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.
All you have to do is tell the people they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
A lot of people who were pacifists or opposed to wars made a migration from Hyde Park and the South Shore in the '60s. They set up centers of opposition to the Vietnam War.
Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists. During the war they gave a large-scale refutation of this charge, and the vote was given to them for their share in the bloody
In any consideration of disarmament, a distinction must be drawn between the positions of pacifists, of members of parliament, and of governments.
Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.
We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.
Naturally the common people don't want war ... but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along.... All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
The pacifists, task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.
As long as it was only we poor pacifists who said that kind of thing we were treated as lunatics, as incurable utopians, or even as traitors.
It's funny how most activists are pacifists.
The idea of it is that these kids are all pacifists but have this obsession with guns, so it's a bit contradictory in the subject matter,
Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.