Skip to content

The problem after a war is the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay.

— A. J. Muste

Another quote →

Topics

War

More quotes by A. J. Muste

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

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

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 life under a class system.

Do good to them that hate you" (an exhortation presumably intended for the capitalist as well as for the laborer), another statement of the same rule is, "They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind."

All A. J. Muste quotes →

You may also like

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now.

Hunter S. Thompson

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

George Santayana Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

Ulysses S. Grant Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: A. J. Muste (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.