Carles Puigdemont Quotes

Since the start of the Occupy Wall Street movement, CODEPINK activists have joined the frontlines of the non-violent Occupy movement across the country.

Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.

Pacifists should stress more and more that it is the rule of law for which they are fighting.

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.

The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence.

What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.

I do have an intense respect for pacifists, because I believe that ultimately, if we are to have a truly humanistic as well as libertarian society, violence will have to be banished on this planet.

I don't believe in carrying a weapon. If somebody wants to shoot me, he'll have to bring his own gun.

Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.

I don't accept armed struggle. Maybe it was the way in the '50s and '60s, but we want a democratic revolution.

If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.

I have a great admiration for pacifism, but I'm not a pacifist, mainly because I would defend myself if I were attacked.

I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial.

I came to carry out the struggle, not to kill people.

If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.

And peace unweaponed conquers every wrong!

Even if only 2 percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail.

We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.

Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.

I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

Look,' I said, struggling to keep up, 'I just wanna make one thing absolutely clear. I don't believe in guns. I just want peace. Okay?' Alessandro stopped in the middle of the corridor, took out the gun, and wrapped my hand around it before I realized what he was doing. 'Can you feel that? That's a gun. It exists. And there are a lot of people out there who do believe in it. So, excused me for taking care of them so you can have your peace.

Guns make me very nervous. They're dangerous. I'm more of a pacifist than anyone could imagine.