top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Actual violence has no attraction for me at all."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Pacifism quotes
"Ez for war I call it murder - There you hev it plain and flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that."
"If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm."
"If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs."
"But strength doesn't always mean brute force. You don't have to kick ass to be a fighter. Violence doesn't equal strength. Lead your army by example. There's a better answer to all this. War isn't going to solve anything, but it will tear our two worlds apart, and there will be casualties, including humans. There's nothing heroic about this war. It will lead to a destruction unlike anything you or I have ever seen."
"Nicholson Baker can't seem to get enough of the wisdom of Gandhi and cites at length an open letter he wrote to the British people on 3 July 1940. "Your soldiers are doing the same work of destruction as the Germans," wrote the Mahatma. "I want you to fight Nazism without arms." He went on to say: "Let them take possession of your beautiful island, with your many beautiful buildings. You will give all these, but neither your souls, nor your minds. If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourself, man, woman and child, to be slaughtered, but you will refuse to owe allegiance to them." I must say that everything in me declines to be addressed in that tone of voice."
"I have never been attracted to any kind of violence."
Explore more quotes by Jane Campion
"Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist."
"Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with."
"What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance."
"To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision."
bottom of page