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

- A. J. Muste

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?

- A. J. Muste

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

- A. J. Muste

Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquis…

- A. J. Muste

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

- A. J. Muste

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

- A. J. Muste

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 a…

- A. J. Muste

Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome ma…

- A. J. Muste

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 …

- A. J. Muste