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Pacifism is possible only through a supranational organization. To stand unconditionally for this cause is the criterion of true pacifism.

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Pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

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Pacifism is abhorent. War is an ugly thing, but still not as ugly as the decayed state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war.

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Pacifism is the same as letting the non-pacifist have control . . . Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact.

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Pacifism is about violence, not just war. War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them.