Howard Moore Quotes

The Moral Equivalent of War

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

It is often pacifists who, halting and stumbling and not knowing whither they are going, finally drift helplessly into a war.

Unless now the world adopts nonviolence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

Bahais are not pacifists since we uphold the use of force in the service of justice and upholding law. But we do not believe that war is ever necessary and its abolition is one of the essential purposes and brightest promises of Bahá’u’lláh’s revelation.

Being a pacifist means that you do not seek a fight, that you use every means in your power to prevent a fight …. but if war comes into your own country, then even a pacifist it seems to me, must stand up and fight for their beliefs.

I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.

I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.

There is no such thing as a politically correct war.

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.

I think war should be illegal.

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

No doubt it requires two to fight. But both of them need not necessarily be fighters. It is, all the same, a fight, even if one goes on beating and the other gets beaten. There is no guarantee that others would behave properly with us even if we remain peaceful and cordial with them.

We believe in peace, but we are not pacifists. Sometimes we have to use force

You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war.

I am against war, and because I am against war I went to war to fight against war.

War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.

I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.

We want no war. We’ll have no war.

War is murder ., The word “murderer” should be embroidered in red letters across the breast of every soldier. I will devote my life to fight this spirit of militarism.

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life. We cannot support any act of killing; no killing can be justified. But not to kill is not enough ... If in your thinking you allow the killing to go on, you also break this precept. We must be determined not to condone killing, even in our minds.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.