Pacifism is a belief that rejects war and violence as a means to resolve conflicts. Many quotes about pacifism emphasize the importance of peace and non-violence. These quotes encourage individuals to seek peaceful solutions and promote understanding among people, nations, and cultures. They often highlight the power of love, compassion, and dialogue in resolving disputes, rather than resorting to aggression or force. Such quotes inspire individuals to make a positive impact on the world by promoting peace, harmony, and unity.
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class. — Vladimir Lenin
Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group
without being willing to pay; and claims a halo for his dishonesty. — Robert A. Heinlein
A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless. — Mahatma Gandhi
Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact, and if the White race decides to wage it no longer, the dark ones will, and will become the masters of the world. — Oswald Spengler
Peace is the only battle worth waging. — Albert Camus
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
The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. — Vera Brittain
Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind. — Mahatma Gandhi
We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers. — Joan Baez
I'm sort of a hippie pacifist in terms of general persona. — Robert M. Sapolsky
Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty. — Oscar Romero
Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation. — Mary Roberts Rinehart
Passivity is the same as defending injustice. — Deepak Chopra
We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment. — Ludwig Quidde
Peace is the result of an inner state of harmony. It is not obtained by eliminating anything external, it is inside ourselves that we must find and suppress the causes of war. — Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Short Pacifism Quotes
Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing. — Harry J. Anslinger
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for. — Albert Camus
It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. — Henry David Thoreau
The Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean are frozen in relation to each other. — Tim Marshall
If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it. — Hiro Mashima
The human race is at war. Our biggest enemy, pure and simple, is ignorance. — John Young
I am such a Pacific Northwest girl. — Kristin Hannah
China intends to become a two-ocean power - Pacific and Indian. — Tim Marshall
Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist — George Orwell
An open mind is better than a clenched fist. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Peace And Pacifism Quotes
We need peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. It is important to have political and security stability to build up our economic growth. — Joko Widodo
We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war. — Albert Einstein
Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of peace will beget not peace, but further death and destruction, the very violence the pacifists seek to avoid. — David Limbaugh
I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples. — Frank B. Kellogg
A core challenge for Australia is - how do we best prepare ourselves for the Asia Pacific century - to maximise the opportunities, to minimise the threats and to make our own active contribution to making this Asia-Pacific Century peaceful, prosperous and sustainable for us all. — Kevin Rudd
Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region. — Chen Shui-bian
The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully. — William C. Kirby
Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just -- and God is with us. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In 2005, I founded the Democratic Pacific Union, an international organization of 28 democratic countries to promote democracy, peace and prosperity in the Pacific region. — Annette Lu
The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully. — William Kirby
Quaker Quotes
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles. — William Penn
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time. — Harriet Tubman
The moral man is he who is opposed to injustice per se, opposed to injustice wherever he finds it; the moral man looks for injustice first of all in himself. — Bayard Rustin
The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people. — Richard J. Foster
I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage, and try from the bottom of my heart to do that which I believe truth dictates, if it lead me to be a Quaker or not — Elizabeth Fry
My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker. — Woody Allen
... my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than 'taking authority for truth.' — Lucretia Mott
I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude. — Richard Rodney Bennett
In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now. — John Sergeant Wise
However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school. — Brian De Palma
Pacific Ocean Quotes
It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory. — Stephen King
When you fall in love with a work of art, you’d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the galleries of Pacific sunsets, full moon rises on the ocean, the clouds from an airplane, autumn forests in Raleigh, first fallen snows.
And I’m dying to meet the artist. — Yasmin Mogahed
Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean... Russia has a certain natural advantage because it also borders the Pacific Ocean. — Vladimir Putin
The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs. — Alan Kay
Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead. — David R. Brower
Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in. — William Least Heat-Moon
It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone. — Henry David Thoreau
Mickey is a secret journal chained closed with a padlock, slammed inside a vault and dropped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean. — Noel Fisher
Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean. — William H. Seward
It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity. — Jenny Shipley
Pacific Northwest Quotes
Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest. — Bruce Babbitt
Seattle is not an overly friendly city. It is a civil city, but not altogether friendly. People from outside mistake the civility for friendliness. Seattle is full of people who have their own lives to live. They won't waste their time being friendly. But they are civil. — Jonathan Raban
I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area. — Kyle MacLachlan
In growing up in Seattle, I don't know a single family that didn't barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its own kind of simple, pared-down, what I call Pacific Northwest cooking. — Mario Batali
Growing up in the Pacific Northwest as a young girl, whenever I felt emotionally overwhelmed, I would take a walk in the woods. Being in the stillness and grandeur of trees had always calmed me. — Brenda Strong
The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel. — Elizabeth George
It's hard not to fall in love with Seattle on a beautiful summer's day. — Robert Spector
We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?' — Melinda Gates
Pacifism means letting the non-pacifists have control ... Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact. If the white races are resolved never to wage war again, the colored will act differently and become rulers of the world. — Oswald Spengler
You wouldn't think such a place as San Francisco could exist. The wonderful sunlight there, the hills, the great bridges, the Pacific at your shoes. Beautiful Chinatown. Every race in the world. The sardine fleets sailing out. The little cable-cars whizzing down The City hills. And all the people are open and friendly. — Dylan Thomas
The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks. — Hideki Tojo
It's crazy that with an iPhone, a little Starlink antenna, and a solar power unit, you could live in an isolated cave in the mountains or on a raft in the middle of the Pacific and get a world-class education, start a business or art career, and make friends all around the world. — Tim Urban
Between China and the Pacific is the archipelago that is poisoning China’s relations with its neighbors. National pride means China wants to control the passageways through the chain; geopolitics dictates that it has to. — Tim Marshall
Indonesia is eager to cooperate with APEC member economies and with the business communities in the Asia-Pacific region. — Joko Widodo
At this historical juncture, it is important that we in the Asia-Pacific face up to the responsibility of the times, be in the driver’s seat, and strive hard to meet the goal of building an APEC region with a shared future. — Xi Jinping
In 1939 Winston Churchill, describing the 5000-mile peaceful border dividing Canada and the United States, said, 'That long frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded only by neighborly respect and honorable obligations, is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world. — Ronald Reagan
I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what every other oppressed person has advocated-the right to help myself in the absence of help from anywhere else. — Marwan Barghouti
The railroad business is one of the great businesses of the world...first of all, they’re not going to build a new one right? If you own the second largest railroad in Canada...That’s Canadian Pacific. You know it’s an asset that was created 150 or 60 years ago...the replacement cost of the railroad is you know, hundreds of billions of dollars. — Bill Ackman
The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own [world], we won't be able to get help. — Jared Diamond
A century earlier, the British had learned they needed forward bases and coaling stations from which to project and protect their naval power. Now, with Britain in decline, the Americans looked lasciviously at the British assets and said, ‘Nice bases — we’ll have them.’ In the autumn of 1940, Britain desperately needed more warships. The Americans had fifty to spare and so, with what was called the Destroyers for Bases Agreement, the British swapped their ability to be a global power for help in remaining in the war. Almost every British naval base was handed over. This was, and is still, for all countries, about concrete. Concrete for the building of ports, runways, hangars, fuel depots, dry docks. In the East, after the defeat of Japan, America seized the opportunity to build these all over the Pacific; now they had bases right up to the Japanese island of Okinawa. — Tim Marshall
With Iceland, Norway, Britain, and Italy all founding members of NATO having granted the U.S. access and rights to their bases, it now dominated the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean as well as the Pacific. In 1951, it extended its domination there down to the south by forming an alliance with Australia and New Zealand, and also to the north following the Korean War of 1950–53. — Tim Marshall
The vast Pacific Ocean has ample space for China and the United States. We welcome a constructive role by the United States in promoting peace, stability, and prosperity in the region. We also hope that the United States will fully respect and accommodate the major interests and legitimate concerns of Asia-Pacific countries. — Xi Jinping
There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories. — Soong May-ling
There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories. — Madame Chiang KaiShek
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. — Ludwig Quidde
Nonviolence and legal action must be twin weapons– either one being used when it seems to be most applicable, with each bolstering the other. — James L. Farmer, Jr.
The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II, nothing that happened in the Pacific was strange or unexpected. — Chester W. Nimitz
Women are more powerful than they think. A mother's warmth is the essence of motivation. If we could liquefy the encouragement, care and compassion we deliver to our children it would surely fill an expanse greater than the Pacific. — Louise Burfitt-Dons
The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is a continuation of other disastrous trade agreements, like NAFTA, CAFTA, and permanent normal trade relations with China. — Bernie Sanders
Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force. — George Orwell
The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of the fallen world, at my particular point of history. This is why I am not a pacifist. Pacifism in this poor world in which we live -- this lost world -- means that we desert the people who need our greatest help. — Francis Schaeffer
Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics ... the more you are in the right (and) everybody else should be bullied into thinking otherwise. — George Orwell
Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men. — Haile Selassie
In Conclusion
Quotes about pacifism also stress the need for forgiveness and reconciliation. They advocate for finding common ground and working towards peaceful coexistence. These quotes remind us that violence only begets more violence and that true strength lies in choosing non-violent paths. They encourage individuals to stand up against injustice and oppression without resorting to aggression, and to strive for a world where conflicts are resolved through peaceful means. These quotes serve as a reminder that pacifism is not a sign of weakness but a courageous and noble approach towards creating a more harmonious and peaceful world.
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