Freya Stark Quotes

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.

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

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 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.

Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.

And peace unweaponed conquers every wrong!

We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price.

I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct.

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."

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.

Violence is absolutely not our method.

We shall use only peaceful means and we shall not permit any other kind of method.

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.

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 see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does not come out of some instinctive human need. It is manufactured by political leaders, who then must make a tremendous effort--by enticement, by propaganda, by coercion--to mobilize a normally reluctant population to go to war.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

I'm not a pacifist. I'm not that brave.

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.

Pacifists should stress more and more that it is the rule of law for which they are fighting.

If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.

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