Fiorello H. La Guardia Quotes

I am a pacifist.

I'm a pacifist.

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.

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

I am against all 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 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.

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

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

You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war.

I hold that all war is morally wrong and its prosecution a crime. I hold life as sacred and cannot bring myself to join in the slaughter of my fellow men.

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.

The concept of patriotism is not incompatible with that of humanity; on the contrary, let me state emphatically that he who best serves pacifism serves patriotism best. The nation is and can be no more than the vital basic unit of any international league.

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

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 a pacifist by nature.

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

I'm against all war.

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.

All of the nations of the world, for realistic as well as spiritual reasons, must come to the abandonment of the use of force.

War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.