Top 20 Conscientious Objector Quotes
#1. It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
Harold Pinter
#2. I know I'm 38 but I insist that santa claus exists and he raped my mother when I was 9.
Thom Yorke
#4. 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
#5. I have become a conscientious objector in the war between the sexes.
Edna Buchanan
#6. We can continue to fight. We can continue to kill - and continue to be killed. But we can also try to put a stop to this never-ending cycle of blood. We can also give peace a chance.
Yitzhak Rabin
#7. Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.
H.L. Mencken
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Humanity is about living in the gray area between corruptibility and incorruptibility.
D.C. Akers
#11. How many people volunteer for an army and then claim conscientious objector status?
John Scalzi
#12. 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
#13. That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.
Laurence Housman
#14. A young man with an untrimmed beard and rebellious eyes looked like a conscientious objector to everything.
Ross Macdonald
#15. God is British to the bone, and every fellow here knows it. You can't exploit him to save yourself, you blaspheming cadaverous-prig; you disgusting shambles of porcelain-skin, unwholesome-fat and puny-bones. Your blatant disregard for God's word shan't earn you any favours here!
Joss Sheldon
#16. You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It's important to have a philosophy of life ... and of death.
Henry V. O'Neil
#17. If you are not a Conchie, what are you man?' demanded the Major.
After some moments' thought, Francis said, 'I am a human being who does not believe in killing my fellow man for insufficient reason.
Theresa Breslin
#18. No thanky-you; you can't overcome hatred with more hatred. Force can kill the liar but not the lie, the hater but not the hate, and the violent but not the violence. Hate begets hate, violence begets violence, and war begets war.
Joss Sheldon
#19. If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play.
Marge Piercy
#20. We can endure almost anything if we are centered, if we have some focus in our life. You can endure if you have an anchor.
Renita J. Weems
