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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
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
At the vital point of truth, we all become a conscientious objector. -- Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
... I have become a conscientious objector in the war between the sexes. -- Edna Buchanan
If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play. -- Marge Piercy
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
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
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
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
Periodically, 'The New York Times' runs a business news story lamenting how few women still make it to the top in the Wall Street boys' club. Could it be that women are choosing to be conscientious objectors in these wars of one against all? -- Tina Brown

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