They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.
Howard ZinnTags: poetry poets violence guns pacifism nonviolence war-and-peace poetry-love-spirituality
I am not a committed pacifist. I would not hold that it is under all imaginable circumstances wrong to use violence, even though use of violence is in some sense unjust. I believe that one has to estimate relative justices. But the use of violence and the creation of some degree of injustice can only be justified on the basis of the claim and the assessment-which always ought to be undertaken very, very seriously and with a good deal of scepticism that this violence is being exercised because a more just result is going to be achieved.
Noam ChomskyWriters haven't got any rockets to blast off. We don't even trundle the most insignificant auxiliary vehicle. We haven't got any military might. So what can literature do in the face of the merciless onslaught of open violence? One word of truth outweighs the whole world.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTags: truth writing pacifism writers-on-writing writing-life
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