Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
George OrwellStichwörter: war dictatorship totalitarianism pacifism despots interventionism
If [pacifists] imagine that one can somehow "overcome" the German army by lying on one's back, let them go on imagining it, but let them also wonder occasionally whether this is not an illusion due to security, too much money and a simple ignorance of the way in which things actually happen.
George OrwellStichwörter: pacifism anti-war world-war-2
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Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.
Criss JamiStichwörter: wisdom reason self-control retaliation patience virtue judgment foolishness wise pacifism discernment insecurity jump antagonism masculinity manliness pacifist wise-man prudence antagonistic insecure needless
Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
William FaulknerStichwörter: men war fighting pacifism pacifists
Love does not imply pacifism.
Derrick JensenEssentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.
BonoStichwörter: pacifism
The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.
Mahatma GandhiStichwörter: pacifism
The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle [World War II], while living on food which British sailors have to risk their lives to bring you, is a bourgeois illusion bred of money and security.
George OrwellStichwörter: world-war-ii pacifism
It was strange to us that none of these three victims made any attempt to resist the attack. Indeed, not one inhabitant in any of these worlds considered for a moment the possibility of resistance. In every case the attitude to disaster seemed to express itself in such terms as these:
"To retaliate would be to wound our communal spirit beyond cure. We choose rather to die. The theme of spirit that we have created must inevitably be broken short, whether by the ruthlessness of the invader or by our own resort to arms. It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit. Such as it is, the spirit that we have achieved is fair; and it is indestructibly woven into the tissue of the cosmos. We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be. We die knowing that the promise of further glory outlives us in other galaxies. We die praising the Star Maker, the Star Destroyer.
Stichwörter: scifi war pacifism non-interventionism
The speaker calls for a careful examination of Christ's principle of turning the other cheek before we use it as a demand or excuse for total personal pacifism. After all, when literally struck on the cheek, Jesus did question the legitimacy of the authority by which this was done.
John ThackwayStichwörter: politics activism authority pacifism
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