Muste Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

A.J. Muste

#3. All the happiness you ever find lies in you.

L. Ron Hubbard

#4. 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

#5. In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

A.J. Muste

#6. In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

A.J. Muste

#7. Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

Louis L'Amour

#8. Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

A.J. Muste

#9. I don't put any stock in whatever it is that happens inside my head.

Banana Yoshimoto

#10. Science is organised knowledge.

Herbert Spencer

#11. 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

#12. I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.

Tom Waits

#13. If I can't love Hitler, I can't love at all.

A.J. Muste

#14. No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.

A.J. Muste

#15. I'm like the Davy Crockett of comedy ... after Davy Crockett opened up the West and helped everybody ... they didn't need him anymore. I freed a lot of comics ... if I never would have done comedy, it would've been a different art form ... I'm sure of it.

Paul Mooney

#16. 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

#17. The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

A.J. Muste