George Orwell Quotes

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.

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

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

There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders, and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty - in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub - our immediate duty is to stop it.

I'm a pacifist.

It is better to be killed than to kill.

To be violent is the ultimate laziness. War always seems a great effort, but it is the easy way. And false non-violence is also an idol.

I'm against genocide. I'm against fascism. I'm willing to fight against them so that, in that sense, I think one can still be committed to justice and committed to peace but recognize the circumstances under which one does have to fight.

I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.

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

I wouldn't take up arms. I think that might be a little extreme.

Violence is the weapon of the weak.

Pacifism is a nice idea but it can get you killed. We're not there yet. Evolution is slow, small pox is fast.

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

True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.

There's nothing militant about Jesus. I don't read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut off the servant's ear, and Jesus said, "Put back thy sword, Peter." But Peter has had his sword out and at work ever since.

Violence is absolutely not our method.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

I am a pacifist.

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

Force is not a remedy.

I do not like violence.

I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.

Terror can never be defeated by force alone.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.