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

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 attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

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?

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

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

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.

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