Mary Heaton Vorse Quotes

Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace.

Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.

We are living in a time of many wars. The call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet. Peace if always proactive and dynamic.

Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.

And peace unweaponed conquers every wrong!

Believing that war is contrary to the will of God and to common sense, and feeling that the way of peace is the way of love, I shall work for peace by using the way of love myself, by helping any group I am part of to use it, by helping the nation of which I am a citizen to use it, by helping the United Nations to use it, and by praying that the way of love be used all over the world.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?

The most important thing today is to stop US wars.

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

The way I'm going now is to focus on peace, to create peace. As Sister Corita said, "I don't go to anti-war rallies. I go to peace rallies."

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.