Richard Engel Quotes

I am a pacifist.

I'm a pacifist.

I'm a pacifist by nature.

I'm really a pacifist.

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

Pacifism is patriotism.

Violence is absolutely not our method.

I am against all war.

I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.

What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.

And when it is done, we ought to follow the example by disarming ourselves.

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.

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.

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

Unless now the world adopts nonviolence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

… the moral equivalent of 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.

Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.

I'm not a pacifist. I'm not that brave.

I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

I don't like to fight.

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.

Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.