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

Nevertheless, hateful as saying 'No' always is to an imaginative person, and certain as the offence may be that it will cause to individuals whose own work does not require isolated effort, the writer who is engaged on a book must learn to say it. He must say it consistently to all interrupters; to the numerous callers and correspondents who want him to speak, open bazaars, see them for 'only' ten minutes, attend literary parties, put people up, or read, correct and find publishers for semi-literate manuscripts by his personal friends.

I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.

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.

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 creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.