“ I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you, an 't were any nightingale. - A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. ”
- Colman McCarthy- Copy
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“ I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, He must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, Must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking? ”
- Arlo Guthrie- Copy
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“ I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain international questions cannot be discussed; it may be that they have to be fought out. But the fighting never settles the question… ”
- Henry Ford- Copy
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“ You should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do. ”
- Malcolm X- Copy
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“ I myself would go for nonviolence if it was consistent, if everybody was going to be nonviolent all the time. I'd say, okay, let's get with it, we'll all be nonviolent. But I don't go along with any kind of nonviolence unless everybody's going to be nonviolent… ”
- Malcolm X- Copy
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“ They should have told him that was not a metaphor. He should've gotten back up and dove in again, like Pearl Jam. He would have gotten the young vote, the MTV vote. ”
- Bob Dole- Copy
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“ Now I will show myself To have more of the serpent than the dove; That is — more knave than fool. ”
- Christopher Marlowe- Copy
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“ Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool. ”
- Christopher Marlowe- Copy
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“ Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings? ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow. ”
- Guy Burgess- Copy
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“ We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. ”
- Maynard Jackson- Copy
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“ Society, friendship, and love, / Divinely bestowed upon man, / Oh, had I the wings of a dove, / How soon would I taste you again! ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hands. If you hold it too tightly, you crush it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it. ”
- Tommy Lasorda- Copy
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“ We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals. ”
- Ammon Hennacy- Copy
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