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Prof. Albert Einstein: " I resigned as a member of the League of Na- tions Commission on Intellectual Cooperation. In a letter to the Secretariat I said that I thought the League lacked both the strength and the good-will to accomplish its task, and, as a pacifist, it was necessary for me to resign...
...earnest, serious minds, especially on the minds of women, some of them educators. But what surprises me more than anything else, is that heed is given to it in a small proportion in the student body in some colleges. In fact, in some of them, the faculty are notoriously pacifist. A study of history will quickly point out the danger of such pacificism, which surely points to the fear that the sacrifices of the next generation will be even more than the unpardonable sacrifices suffered by America in the past war due to our smug complacency of unpreparedness...
...possible for a man to support armed intervention in Mexico, and be a pronounced and innocuous pacifist in the World War, and yet be consistent in his own eyes and these of his followers. He may denounce the people who were blown up in the Lusitania, and condone those who blow them up; may weaken, by hostile notion, aggressive designs on Germany after the declaration of war; may make wartime service to one's country a political liability; may do infinite harm, by harsh criticism and stubborn blocking, to both Democratic and Republican administrations alike; yet find himself, by almost...
...necessary, the time for Indian freedom is not yet here'. That, of course, is not the attitude of all India, but it is the felling of the great many. Because Ghana objected to the English use of Indian soldiers in foreign wares, he is quite commonly considered as a pacifist. Nothing could be further from the truth. He merely does not want to see his country men used to extend English domination over other countries. 'If India should be attacked,' he say, 'no one would advocate enlistment in the army sooner than I, but when it means subjecting other countries...
...There are two elements in the country today--the militarist and the pacifist. The militarist says 'If we don't prepare to put ourselves on out guard we will have war'. The pacifist asserts that we will get what we prepare for, and there is a certain amount of truth on both sides. The best way to straighten the matter out, perhaps, is to analyze the different types of force, since force must be taken into consideration. They are three in number. Force used for attack, which is aggression; force used to ward off-attack, which is defence; and police...