Quotes from A. J. Muste

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.

Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

If I can't love Hitler, I can't love at all.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

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.

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?

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.