Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
A. J. Muste
A. J. Muste
Educational enterprises do not
Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.
A. J. Muste
Joy and growth come
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.
A. J. Muste
Paradoxically, life is worth
Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.
A. J. Muste
War is not an
War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.
A. J. Muste
If I can’t love
If I can’t love Hitler, I can’t love at all.
A. J. Muste
Those who can bring
Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure – more, doubtless, by life than by words – to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.
A. J. Muste
In a world built
In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.
A. J. Muste
In the defense of
In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.
A. J. Muste
We cannot have peace
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.
A. J. Muste