Ammon Hennacy Quotes

United States, Pacifist
July 24, 1893 – January, 14, 1970.

Ammon Ashford Hennacy was an American Christian pacifist, anarchist, social activist, member of the Catholic Worker Movement, and Wobbly. He established the Joe Hill House of Hospitality in Salt Lake City, Utah and practiced tax resistance.

Also known as Anarchist, Activist

A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.

Ammon Hennacy
- Wars
- Vegetarian
- Pacifist
“A Christian Anarchist does not depend on bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused and dying world.”

Ammon Hennacy

“I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to stop the world from changing me.”

Ammon Hennacy
- World
- Trying
- Change
“Force is the weapon of the weak.”

Ammon Hennacy
- Force
- Weak
- Weapon
At times those who do not want to have their inconsistencies pointed out say in a super-sweet voice to me "Judge not, lest ye be judged." I reply "O.K., judge me, then."

Ammon Hennacy
An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave.

Ammon Hennacy
- Behave
- Cop
- Anarchist
Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world.

Ammon Hennacy
- World
- Love
- Wisdom
“We really can’t change the world. We really can’t change other people! The best we can do is to start a few thinking here and there. The best way to do this, if we are sincere, is to change ourselves!”

Ammon Hennacy
- Thinking
- Change
- Best

Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.

Ammon Hennacy
- Need
- Laws
- Obey
I love my enemies, but am hell on my friends.

Ammon Hennacy
- Friends
- Hell
- Enemies