“Only liberal societies tolerate Pacifists. In the liberal society the number of Pacifists will either be large enough to cripple the state as a belligerent, or not. If not, [the Pacifists] have done nothing. If [the number of Pacifists] is large enough, then you have handed over the state which does tolerate Pacifists to its totalitarian neighbor which does not. Pacifism of this kind is taking the straight road to a world in which there will be no Pacifists.”
C.S. Lewis

“The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not to follow their thoughts beyond that point. But there is a minority of intellectual pacifists whose real though unacknowledged motive appears to be hatred of western democracy and admiration for totalitarianism. Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other, but if one looks closely at the writing of the younger intellectual pacifists one finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and the United States.”
George Orwell

[on peaceniks] “The problem is that it takes some extra thought to understand that the world contains quite a few nasty people who don’t think peace is a positive thing.”
James Hirsen