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839b734
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There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.
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war
misattributed-to-albert-camus
pacifism
principles
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Albert Dietrich |
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8c5d918
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Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity
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war
analogy
disapproval
paradox
pacifism
motto
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Stephen King |
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3b64cbe
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And do you know another thing, Arthur? Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds.
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war
life
merlin
pacifism
nobility
peace
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T.H. White |
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49cfacd
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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war
men
pacifists
pacifism
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William Faulkner |
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3caf720
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"If the counsel of the peaceniks had been followed, Kuwait would today be the nineteenth province of Iraq. Bosnia would be a trampled and cleansed province of Greater Serbia, Kosovo would have been emptied of most of its inhabitants, and the Taliban would still be in power in Afghanistan. Yet nothing seems to disturb the contented air of moral superiority of those that intone the "peace movement"."
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noninterventionism
pacifism
peace-movement
leftism
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Christopher Hitchens |
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6564985
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Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows.
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provocative-inspirational
pacifism
peace
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David Mitchell |
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189c1d2
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... it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable of thought stood for reason and the love of peace instead of heading wildly with blind obsession for new war.
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war
reason
pacifism
peace
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Hermann Hesse |
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240523c
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It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write what I want to say as well as what I did) feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world.
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violence
humanity
pacifism
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John Fowles |
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2b4469f
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"But you invite ..." "I invite a bit of military nonsense." "That's what I ..." "Duncan, I am a teacher. Remember that. By repetition, I impress the lesson." "What lesson?" "The ultimately suicidal nature of military foolishness."
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pacifism
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Frank Herbert |
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9fae599
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There was a time in my life when I did a fair bit of work for the tempestuous Lucretia Stewart, then editor of the American Express travel magazine, . Together, we evolved a harmless satire of the slightly driveling style employed by the journalists of tourism. 'Land of Contrasts' was our shorthand for it. ('Jerusalem: an enthralling blend of old and new.' 'South Africa: a harmony in black and white.' 'Belfast, where ancient meets modern.') It was as you can see, no difficult task. I began to notice a few weeks ago that my enemies in the 'peace' movement had decided to borrow from this tattered style book. The mantra, especially in the letters to this newspaper, was: 'Afghanistan, where the world's richest country rains bombs on the world's poorest country.' Poor fools. They should never have tried to beat me at this game. What about, 'Afghanistan, where the world's most open society confronts the world's most closed one'? 'Where American women pilots kill the men who enslave women.' 'Where the world's most indiscriminate bombers are bombed by the world's most accurate ones.' 'Where the largest number of poor people applaud the bombing of their own regime.' I could go on. (I think number four may need a little work.) But there are some suggested contrasts for the 'doves' to paste into their scrapbook. Incidentally, when they look at their scrapbooks they will be able to re-read themselves saying things like, 'The bombing of Kosovo is driving the Serbs into the arms of Milosevic.
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racism
war
antiwar-movement
apartheid
kosovo
kosovo-war
slobodan-milosevic
south-africa
war-in-afghanistan-2001-present
pacifism
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Christopher Hitchens |
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862380a
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The friends of Galtieri, Saddam Hussein, Mullah Omar and Milosevic make unconvincing defenders of humanitarian values, and it can be seen that their inept and sometimes inane arguments lack either the principles or the seriousness that are required in such debates.
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pacifism
leftism
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Christopher Hitchens |
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73a3ed2
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Perhaps you couldn't help being angry... but you could certainly stop yourself from repaying one offense with another.
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non-violence
pacifism
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Gail Carson Levine |
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58abad7
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All beings tremble before danger, all fear death. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill.
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killing
death
pacifism
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Anonymous |
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67111b7
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Marko: No matter what mistakes you've see your daddy make, violence---magical or otherwise---is never acceptable. Petrichor: Nonsense, Marko. Violence is often : in self-defense, the arts foreplay... Hazel: I want to four-play!
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violence
pacifism
peace
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Brian K. Vaughan |
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74733a1
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DESEGREGATE THE BUSES WITH THIS 7 POINT PROGRAM: 1. Pray for guidance. 2. Be courteous and friendly. 3. Be neat and clean. 4. Avoid loud talk. 5. Do not argue. 6. Report incidents immediately. 7. Overcome evil with good. Sponsored by Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance Rev. A. L. Davis, Pres. Rev. J. E. Poindexter, Secretary
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hatred
disagreements
pacifism
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John Howard Griffin |
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c144cd1
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We cannot afford the luxury known as conscience. The enemy we are up against certainly doesn't have one, so we are obliged to be absolutely rational. Cruel, if you like. People of good will, tolerant, liberal, whatever term you care to use, have always labored under a disadvantage. Those in power, those who want to hold on to power whatever the cost, have one ultimate recourse. If all else fails, they are prepared to kill. This is not available to pacifists.
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tyrannicide
pacifism
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John Brunner |
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f3100da
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Pacifists have usually regarded the use of violence as absolutely wrong, irrespective of its consequences. This, like other 'no matter what' prohibitions, assumes the validity of the distinction between acts and omissions. Without this distinction, pacifists who refuse to use violence when it is the only means of preventing greater violence would be responsible for the greater violence they fail to prevent.
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violence
pacifism
ethics
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Peter Singer |
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b13d09b
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"The common depiction of Jesus as an inveterate peacemaker who "loved his enemies" and "turned the other cheek" has been built mostly on his portrayal as an apolitical preacher with no interest in or, for that matter, knowledge of politically turbulent world in which he lived. That picture of Jesus has already been shown to be complete fabrication. The Jesus of history had a far more complex attitude toward violence. There is no evidence that Jesus himself openly advocated violent actions. But he was certainly no pacifist. "Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth. I have not come to bring peace, but sword" (Matthew 10:34 / Luke 12:51)"
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jesus
pacifism
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Reza Aslan |
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0ce9884
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I think it's good to smile at everybody so that everyone knows you love everyone. It's good for human pacifism.
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humor
pacifism
smiling
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Aimee Bender |
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ecb5d84
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People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.
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ministry
spiritual-warfare
pacifism
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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cb9f7b7
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I was peace pipes and treaties. My style was to talk and duck. It was an animal tactic, playing dead in hopes that the predators would move to an actual fight.
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predators
puberty
fights
pacifism
prey
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |