Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
 all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

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'.

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.

The distant Trojans never injured me.

The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being.

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental nonviolence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.

Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

I am an absolute pacifist ... It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.