Victor Hugo 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.

I do hereby pledge myself never to enlist or enter into any army or navy, or to yield my voluntary support or sanction to the preparation for or prosecution of any war, by whomsoever or for whatsoever proposed, declared, or waged.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons for the cause of a war.

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

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.

What if when they called a war, no one went?

Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.

I'm basically a pacifist.

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

What do you do when you get a draft notice and you think a war is wrong? And I struggled with that for months prior to my being inducted into the army, and I'm still struggling with it, 40 years later.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

If it is right to honor those who served in the cause of war, then it is equally right to honor those who served the cause of resistance to war.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.

I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips.

I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be. I am against the war and I am very vocal about it.

When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.

Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war.

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.

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