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We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
Once a reporter asked him, "Do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night in front of the White House with a candle?" A.J. Muste replied softly: "Oh I don't do this to change the country. I do this so the country won't change me.
If I can't love Hitler, I can't love at all.
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.
No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.
The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.