82 Quotes by Vera Brittain

"The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war."

"All that a pacifist can undertake – but it is a very great deal – is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate."

"The pacifist’s task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war."

"It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men’s attitude to women, and in women’s attitude to themselves."

"College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation."

"There is a strange lack of dignity in conquest; the dull, uncomplaining endurance of defeat appears more worthy of congratulation."

"The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby’s life."

"Few of humanity’s characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be."

"Venice is all sea and sculpture..."

"How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would come when we should have no more hope, and yet be unable to die."