Conscientious Objectors Quotes

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

John F. Kennedy

Peace, War, Presidential

"Warrior" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 2007.

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The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.

Albert Einstein

Sacrifice, Law, Important

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.257, Princeton University Press

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It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.

Harold Pinter

Gun, Sticks, Difficult

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They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight and maybe die to preserve the way the white man treated the black man in America, then my conscience made me object.

Malcolm X

Fighting, Men, White Man

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.211, Ballantine Books

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An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.

Bainbridge Colby

Loyalty, Country, Intelligent

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As a very young man I signed a declaration - 'I renounce war and will never support another'. That was in 1939 and I have maintained this stand throughout the whole period, including WW2, as a Conscientious Objector.Worked to achieve Peace since. It is necessary for individuals to take this stand and maintain it. War never solves anything - it accentuates any problem, whatever it is, and makes matters worse. There is no moral or humanitarian justification for it.

Donald Saunders

War, Men, Support

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At the vital point of truth, we all become a conscientious objector.

Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Witty, Kings

Strength to Love (1963) ch. 4

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Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.

Mahatma Gandhi

Practice, Needs, Defense

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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

Herodotus

Time, History, Eternity

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I wouldn't choose conscientious objector and I wouldn't go to Canada. I did what Hap did and almost went to prison. I think the threw me a bone as the war was winding down, and I think they accepted my sincerity for being against that war.

Joe R. Lansdale

War, Thinking, Down And

Source: thequietus.com

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As a conscientious objector I did my community service in 1971 in a psychiatric hospital and a friend there, who also was a guitar player, invited me one day to join him recording film music with a band named Kraftwerk which I didn't know at the time. I came along and jammed at this session together with Ralf Hütter and a drummer (I believe his name was Charly Weiß). Florian Schneider and Klaus Dinger were present as listeners and everybody liked the spontaneous music we did together.

Michael Rother

Believe, Player, Names

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If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play.

Marge Piercy

Sex, War, Play

Marge Piercy (2013). “Braided Lives”, p.66, PM Press

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... I have become a conscientious objector in the war between the sexes.

Edna Buchanan

Sex, War

Edna Buchanan (2014). “Never Let Them See You Cry”, p.53, Diversion Books

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