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“It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and seafaring are the only ones I know. But it must be something sufficiently serious not to be a game and sufficiently dangerous to exercise those virtues which otherwise get no chance.”

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Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.”

War Desire Dies Fighting Passion Peace Behinds Movement Ready Higher Militant Pacifist

Book:Rebel pen: the writings of Mary Heaton Vorse

Source: Rebel pen: the writings of Mary Heaton Vorse

“Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but I'm not sure what it means when you're such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that.”

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Book:The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono

Source: The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono

“Nobody who's ever been to Gulag is a pacifist.”

War Peace Pacifist Gulags

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a pacifist should not be considered "murder" in a legalistic sense. The offense against the state, if any, should be "Using deadly weapons within city limits," or "Creating a traffic hazard," or other misdemeanor.”

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Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“The problem is that the East is producing missiles and the West is producing pacifists.”

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Author:Francois Mitterrand

“The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.”

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Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.”

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Book:The Rebel Passion: A Short History of Some Pioneer Peacemakers

Source: The Rebel Passion: A Short History of Some Pioneer Peacemakers

“All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.”

Humans May Suffering Hate Order Causes Peace Deals Creatures Refuse Captured Pacifist

Author:Vera Brittain

“You know, if people are not pacifists, it's not their fault. It's because society puts them in that spot. You've got to change it. You don't just change a man - you've got to change his environment as you do it.”

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Author:Cesar Chavez

“He who cherishes the value of cultures cannot fail to be a pacifist.”

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Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein