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 creatu…

- Vera Brittain

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

- Vera Brittain

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.

- Vera Brittain

most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

- Vera Brittain

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

- Vera Brittain

College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation

- Vera Brittain

I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no matter how long the war lasts…

- Vera Brittain

It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.

- Vera Brittain

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

- Vera Brittain