Elihu Burritt Quotes

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 against all war.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

It is often pacifists who, halting and stumbling and not knowing whither they are going, finally drift helplessly into a war.

My voice is still [i.e. silent] for war.

I am against war, and because I am against war I went to war to fight against war.

Pacifism is patriotism.

War is murder ., The word “murderer” should be embroidered in red letters across the breast of every soldier. I will devote my life to fight this spirit of militarism.

Nothing can justify war.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not.

I am against all war.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war is like from personal experience. It was on the battlefield that I pledged myself to the cause of peace.

I am a pacifist.

I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.

I'm basically a pacifist.

The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

We must take the profit out of war.