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“C'è in noi una certa indolenza, un desiderio di non essere disturbati, che ci induce a pensare che quando le cose sono tranquille, tutto va bene. Tendiamo inconsciamente a preferire la "pace sociale", sebbene sia soltanto apparente, perché ci fa sembrare sicure la nostra vita e le cose che possediamo. Di fatto, gli esseri umani si sottomettono troppo facilmente alle condizioni sfavorevoli e si ribellano davvero troppo poco e troppo raramente. Non c'è nulla di nobile nell'acquiescenza ad una vita da oppressi o nella pura sottomissione a una forza superiore.”

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Pacifism and Class War

“Noi saremo la futura nazione che cercherà di dominare il mondo, cioè di fare quello per cui ora condanniamo Hitler.”

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Origine: Citato in Noam Chomsky, Il pacifismo rivoluzionario di A. J. Muste, traduzione di Santina Mobiglia, in Noam Chomsky, I nuovi mandarini, Net, Milano, 2003.

“Il problema dopo una guerra riguarda il vincitore. Egli pensa di avere appena dimostrato che la guerra e la violenza rendono. Chi ora gli darà una lezione?”

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da Crisis in the World and in the Peace Movement

“I mezzi che si usano si fondono inevitabilmente ai fini e, se sono cattivi, sconfiggeranno chi li usa.”

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“In un mondo costruito sulla violenza, si deve essere rivoluzionari, prima di poter essere pacifisti.”

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Pacifism and Class War

“I pacifisti mettono a fuoco la nostra facoltà di pensare […] denunciare la violenza su cui si fonda il sistema attuale, e tutto il male – materiale e spirituale – che questo comporta per le masse degli uomini in ogni parte del mondo… Finché non affrontiamo onestamente e in modo adeguato ciò che costituisce il 90 per cento del problema, c'è qualcosa di ridicolo, e forse di ipocrita, nella nostra preoccupazione per il 10 per cento di violenza esercitata da chi si ribella contro l'oppressione.”

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Pacifism and Class War

“Coloro che sono capaci di condurre se stessi a rinunciare alla ricchezza, alla posizione e al potere derivanti da un sistema sociale fondato sulla violenza e che premia l'avidità, e a identificarsi in modo effettivo con la lotta delle masse verso la luce, possono contribuire in parte – senza dubbio piú con la loro vita che con le parole – a individuare una via migliore, una tecnica di progresso sociale meno crudele, meno brutale, costosa e lenta di quella che il genere umano ha finora sviluppato.”

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A. J. Muste: Frasi in inglese

“Do good to them that hate you" (an exhortation presumably intended for the capitalist as well as for the laborer), another statement of the same rule is, "They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind."”

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Contesto: The psychological basis for the use of nonviolent methods is the simple rule that like produces like, kindness provokes kindness, as surely as injustice produces resentment and evil. It is sometimes forgotten by those whose pacifism is a spurious, namby-pamby thing that if one Biblical statement of this rule is "Do good to them that hate you" (an exhortation presumably intended for the capitalist as well as for the laborer), another statement of the same rule is, "They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind." You get from the universe what you give, with interest! What if men build a system on violence and injustice, on not doing good to those who hate them nor even to those who meekly obey and toil for them? And persist in this course through centuries of Christian history? And if, then, the oppressed raise the chant:

“It is said that if the United States were to stop shooting and withdraw its troops from Vietnam, the Viet Cong would then stage a great purge of the people who we have been seeking to protect — have pledged to protect. First of all, so far they have been getting precious little protection from us. The Vietnamese people as human individuals have been shot at by the French, by us, by Communists, by guerrillas for years. Maybe, if only somebody would stop shooting at them that would be something to the good.”

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"Who Has the Spiritual Atom Bomb?" in Liberation (November 1965).

“There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to 'social peace,' though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions seem then secure. Actually, human beings acquiesce too easily in evil conditions; they rebel far too little and too seldom. There is nothing noble about acquiescence in a cramped life or mere submission to superior force.”

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"Pacifism and Class War" in The Essays of A. J. Muste (1967) edited by p. 179-85; also quoted in American Power and the New Mandarins (2002) by Noam Chomsky, p. 160.

“[Their foremost task] … is to denounce the violence on which the present system is based, and all the evil — material and spiritual — this entails for the masses of menu throughout the world…. So long as we are not dealing honestly and adequately with this ninety percent of our problem, there is something ludicrous, and perhaps hypocritical, about our concern over the ten percent of violence employed by the rebels against oppression.”

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As quoted in American Power and the New Mandarins (2002) by Noam Chomsky, p. 160.

“There is no way to peace; peace is the way.”

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As quoted in "Debasing Dissent" in The New York Times (16 November 1967), p. 46; later quoted as "There is no way to peace, peace is the only way." in The Peasant's Revolt : McCarthy 1968 (1969) by William P. McDonald and Jerry G. Smoke: these statements have also become widely attributed to Mahatma Gandhi.

“Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure — more, doubtless, by life than by words — to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.”

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As quoted in American Power and the New Mandarins (2002) by Noam Chomsky, p. 160.

“In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.”

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As quoted in American Power and the New Mandarins (2002) by Noam Chomsky, p. 160.

“The problem after a war is the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?”

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Statement of 1941, as quoted in A People's History (1980) by Howard Zinn, p. 416; also in The Twentieth Century : A People's History (2003) by Howard Zinn, p. 159.

“We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
Disarmament cannot be achieved nor can the problem of war be resolved without being accompanied by profound changes in the economic order and the structure of society.”

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As quoted in Our Generation Against Nuclear War (1983) by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos.

“We belong to the Society of Friends, a community of love, a family of persons. In so far as we are not just another “denomination,” we know also that the salvation of our age is in our keeping; that is, that it lies in the divine-human society which is "rooted and grounded in love." This is the unity which alone can make one world out of "one world", and not one nightmare, one hell, one burned-out cinder. We know also and in a way we respond to the fact that we have a mission, we are "called to be saints".”

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Saints for This Age (1962).

“Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for [[power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.”

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"Some Notes on Workers’ Education" in New International, Vol.2, No.7 http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/muste/1935/12/workereduc.htm (December 1935), p. 225.

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"Pacifism and Class War" in The Essays of A. J. Muste (1967) edited by Nat Hentoff p. 179-85; also quoted in American Power and the New Mandarins (2002) by Noam Chomsky, p. 160.