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The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

Freya Stark
War, Substitutes, Pacifist
Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.

Freya Stark
Daughter, War, Sleep
Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.113, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and seafaring are the only ones I know. But it must be something sufficiently serious not to be a game and sufficiently dangerous to exercise those virtues which otherwise get no chance.

Freya Stark
Peace, War, Exercise
Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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