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I am a pacifist.
Jesus was a pacifist.
I'm really a pacifist.
I'm a pacifist by nature.
I'm not a pacifist. I'm not that brave.
It's funny how most activists are pacifists.
I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.
Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.
We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
I am not a pacifist in terms of turning the other cheek.
I'm sort of a hippie pacifist in terms of general persona.
What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.
The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry.
A.J. [Muste] was a - as he likes to say, a radical pacifist.
I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.
The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.
I'm not a pacifist. I do believe that, unfortunately, war is necessary.
Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
I shall die as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian.
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
I have a great admiration for pacifism, but I'm not a pacifist, mainly because I would defend myself if I were attacked.
Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a man of peace. He was a radical pacifist, and so he was against war across the board.
From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
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 am not a pacifist and I would back a lawful, coherent and compelling case for the use of military force by the U.K. against Isis.
Now, myself, I'm not a pacifist at all. I believe in just war. I would have joined the spirit of the nation to fight against apartheid.
There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House... I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living.
If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.
A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.
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.
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.
A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
[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.
Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.
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.
We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.
I grew up in a very urban, bohemian family where everyone was a hippie or a pacifist. It was artistically and intellectually stimulating, but they were definitely not into outdoor sports or activities.
A film that I love is 'Deliverance' from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters - the hero, the bookworm, the pacifist - and by the end, it's all turned upside down. I love that.
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?
I am not a pacifist, however I do believe that the U.S. tends to resort to force too quickly. I am not referring only to the current administration; the same thing happened in the Balkans, and on other occasions.
If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs.
There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left, which had been morally confused about Communism since its inception and had become essentially pacifist following the carnage of World War I.
Your brain sends out vibrations all the time, and your thoughts affect your life and other people's. They pick up these thoughts and get changed by them. That's why, say, a pacifist gets caught up in a riot situation. It's a field of vibrations - you can 'feel' someone else's thoughts when close to them.
My great-great-aunt was a terrorist. I'm not talking about the sense in which the pacifist Mahatma Gandhi was branded a terrorist by the British parliament in 1932: Pritilata Waddedar was an active participant in armed struggle against the British state. She supplied explosives. She fired a gun. And I'm proud of it.
I'm a pacifist. I believe there are ways to solve the world's problems. Instead of putting all this money to create arms, I think countries should invest in scholarships for kids to study abroad. Perhaps they could become good and knowledgeable professors in their own countries. You need time for that kind of change, though.