If I can't love Hitler, I can't love at all.
— A. J. Muste
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.
— A. J. Muste
Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
— A. J. Muste
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.
— A. J. Muste
In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.
— A. J. Muste
Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.
— A. J. Muste
In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.
— A. J. Muste
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.
— A. J. Muste
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
— A. J. Muste
There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
— A. J. Muste