Cell: That right there, that is why I despise you. You know what they all have in common? The Saiyans might be fools, the humans might be weak, and the Namekian might not belong, but they're still out there fighting. Not just for their lives, but for this dung hill of a world! […] But, none of them, boy, NOT A ONE, shares that trait with you so vile it drives me to retch! You, Gohan, are a coward.
Gohan: No, I'm just a pacifist!
Cell: So a coward patting himself on the back. Congratulations, pint-size, you can stand proud next to the bodies.
Gohan: No, I'm just a pacifist!
Cell: So a coward patting himself on the back. Congratulations, pint-size, you can stand proud next to the bodies.
"Cell was right. You think you're better than everyone else. But there you stand, the good man doing nothing. And while evil triumphs, and your rigid pacifism crumbles into bloodstained dust, the only victory afforded to you is that you stuck true to your guns. You were a coward. To your last whimper."
— Android 16 to Gohan, Dragon Ball Z Abridged
Sophist: In Vern's quest to make no enemies, he's pissed off everybody! It's insane.
Vernias: I don't understand! How is being the pacifist the most endangering thing?!
Vernias: I don't understand! How is being the pacifist the most endangering thing?!
"[Species Name], your refusal to arm yourselves does not make you immune to the arms of others. But at least your sacrifice will be swift."
— Crisis Player Empire, to a Pacifist Empire, Stellaris
"The simple fact is that non-violent means do not work against Evil. Gandhi's non-violent resistance against the British occupiers had some effect because Britain was wrong, but not Evil. The same is true of the success of non-violent civil rights resistance against de jure racism. Most people, including those in power, knew that what was being done was wrong. But Evil is an entirely different beast. Gandhi would have gone to the ovens had he attempted non-violent resistance against the Nazis. When one encounters Evil, the only solution is violence, actual or threatened. That's all Evil understands."
— Robert Bruce Thompson
"Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'."
George Orwell, Pacifism and the War.(1942)
"Martin's dead, Malcolm's dead, Medgar
's dead, Bobby's dead; Jesus is dead. They tried it peacefully. We're going to try something else."
's dead, Bobby's dead; Jesus is dead. They tried it peacefully. We're going to try something else."— Bobby Seale, The Trial of the Chicago 7. Whether Seale actually said the line or it was invented for the film is not currently known.
"The Sin’reel thought they had found the path to eternal peace. But the Dituka preferred war and wiped them out."
— Javik , Mass Effect 3
