Ammon Hennacy: Quotes about war

Ammon Hennacy was American Christian radical. Explore interesting quotes on war.

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“When I was working a man asked me "Why does a fellow like you, with an education, and who has been all over the country, end up in this out-of-the-way place working for very little on a farm?" I explained that all people who had good jobs in factories, etc. had a withholding tax for war taken from their pay, and that people who worked on farms had no tax taken from their pay. I told him that I refused to pay taxes. He was a returned soldier and said that he did not like war either, but what could a fellow do about it? I replied that we each did what we really wanted to.”

The Book of Ammon

“I am writing this preliminary statement of my reasons for not paying taxes ahead of time, as I was recently informed by your office that I would be imprisoned for my constant refusal to pay taxes. Upon my arrest I will give you the correct report of my earnings to date in 1948. My belief in the iniquity of government, which exists primarily to wage war, has been stated this last six years in my statement to your department when I refused to pay any tax, and also in articles in the Catholic Worker.”

"Tax Statement (1949)"

“A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.”

[A Revolution of the heart: essays on the Catholic worker, Coy, Patrick G., 1988, Temple University Press, 153]