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

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.

Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute.

If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.

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

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.

Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .