Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.
There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
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.
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.
In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.
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.
In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.
If I can’t love Hitler, I can’t love at all.
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?
Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.
No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.