Marjane Satrapi

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.

Iranian Artist

Bruce Lipton

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.

American Scientist

Jason Whitlock

I don't own a gun. I'm a pacifist. I am a critic of commercial gangsta rap music. I don't believe you change people or their flawed perspectives from a distance. You open their minds from up close, when they realize you respect and love them.

American Journalist

Bruce Willis

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.

American Actor

Albert Einstein

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.

German Physicist

Gloria Steinem

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

American Activist

Alice Walker

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

American Author

Robert Sapolsky

I'm sort of a hippie pacifist in terms of general persona.

John Keegan

Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.

English Historian

Rafael Correa

Politician

Focuses on individual's deep convictions against violence, not merely a casual preference.

Personal Belief

Pacifists actively promote peace; they are not simply passive or indifferent to conflict.

Not Passive

Being a pacifist can involve difficult ethical decisions, opposing common social or political attitudes.

Moral Stance

When used as an adjective, it describes actions or policies guided by pacifist beliefs.

Guiding Actions

The adjective 'pacifist' conveys a clear stance; it doesn't imply neutrality or ambivalence.

Descriptive, Not Neutral

Using 'pacifist' can carry an emotional weight, suggesting a deep commitment to peace.

Emotional Weight

 the oldest pacifist organization in the country. But if there's common ground to be had there, yeah, I'll partner with them. It's not easy. The approach means we need to find love. We need to get back to that shared humanity and that commons. But I know this love, it doesn't just get us through Thanksgiving dinner.

The radical act of...

 Operators had to lug a conspicuous transmitter through enemy territory, and the clandestine agency couldn’t protect her if she was caught. Noor accepted her assignment immediately. While she was determined to take her pacifist principles as far as possible,

From pacifist to spy:...

 little that in his deathbed he turned to an assistant and he asked did anything get done among the contradictions he was a pacifist in his life and yet he worked for almost 20 years in Milan for the Sforza family as a military engineer