17 Quotes by A. J. Muste

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

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.

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

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

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

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

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 the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.