Source: Muhammad: A Biography of The Prophet (2001), Chapter 7, Holy War
Chomsky on Religion (2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNDG7ErY-k4&feature=related.
Quotes 2010s, 2010
“Pacifists lose the war; aggressors lose the peace.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
“A pacifist has a lot of difficulty reconciling pacifism with scripture.”
Lanham, Robert: Mark Driscoll: "Meek. Mild. As If" http://www.evangelicalright.com/2006/10/mark_driscoll_meek_mild_as_if_1.html, Evangelical Right blog, October 3, 2006.
“A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.”
[A Revolution of the heart: essays on the Catholic worker, Coy, Patrick G., 1988, Temple University Press, 153]
"No, Not One," The Adelphi (October 1941)
See his later thoughts on this statement below from "As I Please," Tribune (8 December 1944)
“I'm not a warmonger. And I’m not a pacifist either. But I like peace.”
As quoted in "For Congo’s Leader, Middling Reviews" https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/world/africa/04kabila.html?hpw (4 April 2009), by Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times
“I shall die … as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian.”
As quoted in Henry Salt, Humanitarian Reformer and Man of Letters, George Hendrick, Illinois (1977).
“In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.”
As quoted in American Power and the New Mandarins (2002) by Noam Chomsky, p. 160.
1900s, The Moral Equivalent of War (1906)
Context: Pacifists ought to enter more deeply into the aesthetical and ethical point of view of their opponents. … So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation. And as a rule they do fail. The duties, penalties, and sanctions pictured in the utopias they paint are all too weak and tame to touch the military-minded.
