“[after a sword fight] Phoebe Halliwell: Wow! Piper Halliwell: Leo! Phoebe Halliwell: I thought you were a pacifist. Leo Wyatt: I didn't kill him, did I?”— Alison Schapker, Monica Breen, Leo Wyatt, Brian Krause, imdb.com
“Hawkeye: Great little war we have here. Radar: I could do without it.”— Sheldon Keller, Laurence Marks, Hawkeye Pierce, Alan Alda, imdb.com
“An increasingly militant group has it in mind to demand now, with violence if necessary, the rights it has long been denied.’ If we must die abroad for democracy we can't have,’ I heard a friend of mine say, 'then we might as well die right here, fighting for our rights.'”— Bayard Rustin, explorepahistory.com
“Separation, it seems to me, is the chief sin precisely because violence is automatically the result of separation and ostracism between individuals or groups or nations, and my point was that whenever there is such separation and such automatic violence it is naive to believe that you can deal with…”— Bayard Rustin, blogcitylights.com
“Now I tried, secondly, to make it clear that in a sense forcing them into that position did not create violence but rather brought already-existing violence to the surface so that they recognized its existence and were able to deal with it. I pointed out that there are many, many times—and this is a…”— Bayard Rustin, blogcitylights.com
“We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“Firstly, it is not true that fascism is only the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. Fascism is not only a military-technical category. Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organization that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of…”— Joseph Stalin, marxists.org
“[T]he pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.”— Theodore Roosevelt, books.google.com