When the war-machine is set in motion and the people maddened with fear and carried away by false patriotism and all kinds of religious fairy tales, a mobilization against war is apt to fail. So instead ...

We know how in Spain masses of women threw themselves on the rails in front of the trains which were to take soldiers to the front and that no driver could be found who would take his engine over this ...

The more there is of real revolution, the less there is of violence: the more of violence, the less of revolution.

Without war, or at any rate, the threat of war, the capitalist system does not work... Violence is one of the first rules of the imperialist game.

A violent revolution does not result in any fundamental change in human relations; it results merely in a confirmation of the old, bad relations of oppressor and oppressed, or irresponsible tyranny and ...

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.