However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

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

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no matter how long the war lasts and what it may mean, could see a case of musterd gas - the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great musterd coloured suppurating blisters, with blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, and always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying their throats are closing and they know they will choke.

few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.

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.

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