Technical Pacifist/Quotes
Zoe: Preacher, don't The Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killin'? |
It's just too easy to blow somebody up. Non-lethal combat is far more challenging.
—Trestkon, The Nameless Mod
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I will not shed the blood of children and women, but if they starve, my hands are clean.
—Eeluk, Wolf of the Plains
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Aang: But you didn't really kill Chin! Technically, he fell to his own doom because he was too stubborn to get out of the way. |
PACIFIST CRUSH! KINDNESS TO ALL MANKIND KICK!
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"Actually, Spirit Father, they don't seem to be killing anyone. They're just beating the crap out of us."
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"The thing is, Sims was not playing. She did understand the situation, just as well as I did. But she still took those oaths, she was still serious about them, deadly serious, and there is nothing so dangerous as an enemy who leaves themselves so few limitations.... They will go right to the limit of their oaths, if the situation calls for it. Sims and Caeghlin didn't kill anyone when they destroyed Willan's Olympus Mons facility, but the crater that used to be a volcano is still visible from Homeworld with an amateur's telescope."
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"You know, for a man who abhors violence, I took great satisfaction in doing that."
—The Third Doctor, observing the remains of a Dalek
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It's not like I'm an innocent. I've taken lives. I got worse; I got clever. Manipulated people into taking their own.
—The (very anti-gun) Tenth Doctor, Doctor Who
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John Hancock: Mr. Franklin, where do you stand on the war issue? —South Park, "I'm a Little Bit Country"
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I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace.
—Albert Einstein
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Tesla:: Should an intense young man and a wild-eyed gentleman ever approach you and mention the word "Tunguska", I want you to shoot them. Promise me. |
Franklin gives an illuminating account of "the embarrassment given them (in the Pennsylvania assembly) whenever application was made to grant aids for military purposes." Unwilling to offend the government, and averse to violating their principles, he says, they used "a variety of evasions," the commonest one being to grant money "for the king's use" and avoid all inquiry as to the disbursement. But once, when New England asked Pennsylvania for a grant to buy powder, this ingenious device would not serve: — from Quakers and the War (1917 Newspaper Editorial), via The Quaker Writings
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