The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.

We’d be the safest country in the world if the world knew we didn’t have a gun. Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They’re killed because one has a gun.

It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to...

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn’t make sense not to use both.

Killing more people won’t help matters.

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

We’re half the people; we should be half the Congress.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one’s philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn’t any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

As a woman I can’t go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.