Built Quote by A. J. Muste Download Open image “In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.” — A. J. Muste ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Built Pacifist Revolutionary Violence World
“Moreover [pacifists] do not as a rule condemn violence as such, but only violence used in defence of western countries” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual privilege, racial privilege. You… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
In actual fact the pacifistic-humane idea is perfectly all right perhaps when the highest type of man has previously conquered and subjected the world… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I am not a pacifist - I think that violence and self-defence are often morally justified. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent resistance". — Dwight Macdonald Copy Share Image
“I am not a committed pacifist. I would not hold that it is under all imaginable circumstances wrong to use violence, even though use… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of… — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome… — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life. — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it. — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many. — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain… — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on… — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach… — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all… — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords… — Midge Ure Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Most startups are not just built for the person who is using them. When you do that, every now and then you get really… — Emmett Shear Copy Share Image
Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm. — Hafez Copy Share Image
When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute; we wanted people… — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
