The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.