Jesus was a pacifist.
We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
The pacifist streak in German politics is a problem. But Greens and Social Democrats have to ask themselves: In an imperfect world, what do they prefer? The rise of the right or the success of the European project?
I think that religions must seek peace and love and therefore be pacifist.
Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and the powerful, and a pacifist doctrine. And it remained that way, that's what Christianity was up. . . until Constantine. :Constantine shifted it so the cross, which was the symbol of persecution of somebody working for the poor, was put on the shield of the Roman Empire. It became the symbol for violence and oppression, and that's pretty much what the church has been until the present.
The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.
Nobody who's ever been to Gulag is a pacifist.
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.
I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.
I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
A. J. [Muste] was a - as he likes to say, a radical pacifist.
I'm not a pacifist. I do believe that, unfortunately, war is necessary.
Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.
[A. J. Muste] never engaged in violence but he believed, as [Mahatma] Gandhi did - and he knew Gandhi slightly - he believed that a pacifist had to be active in the community.
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.
I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.
A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.
In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism.
I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
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?
