Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
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If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
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My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.
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Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even the most altruistic nose in a steaming pile of F**k that.
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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals
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The world is topsy-turvy, and it needs our conserving strength and influence. Pacifism has gone into discard and is no longer to be feared.
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There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
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I will never buy a fish tank, because I don't believe in supporting the funding of aquatic war machines.
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This side of the Kingdom of God upon Earth, it is a melancholy human fact that those who beat their swords into plowshares end up doing the plowing for those who kept their swords.
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Jesus was a pacifist.
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The idea that war can ever bring freedom is quite possibly the greatest deception that mankind has ever forced upon himself.
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Why is it acceptable to do such horrible things in the name of staying alive? Would it not have been better had I died with my innocence intact?
The very thought that war can ever be justified, let alone desirable or even noble, is quite honestly the greatest deception that mankind has ever forced upon himself.
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.
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Saddam's politics was the politics of the thug, of violence from the outset of his reign. Realism suggests that some people are not going to be tractable in response to purely peaceable overtures. Indeed, it certainly appears that some individuals, including notably Saddam Hussein, will cheerfully help themselves to a yard for every inch offered by well-meaning peacemakers. When we are dealing with customers as tough as that, there is no alternative to being tough ourselves.
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I find it significant that most of the people who believe in just war have never fought in one; examples: Barack W. Bush and George H. Obama.
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If I went on a killing spree that left thousands of people dead, I'd be branded as the worst kind of criminal. So why it is okay for the government to do exactly that?
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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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 depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
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No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
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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.
Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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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 outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.
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