"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. "
- G.K. Chesterton
"There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for."
- Albert Dietrich
"Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down."
- Malcolm X
"No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining out..."
- George Orwell
"Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity"
- Stephen King
"The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not to follow their thoughts beyond that point. But there is a minor..."
"The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the ..."
"Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could. "
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
"Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience."
- Julia Ward Howe