Laurence Sterne Quotes

Be persecuted, rather than be a persecutor. Be crucified, rather than be a crucifier. Be treated unjustly, rather than treat anyone unjustly. Be oppressed, rather than be an oppressor. Be gentle rather than zealous. Lay hold of goodness, rather than justice.

Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.

If you want a kinder world, then behave with kindness; if you want a peaceful world, make peace within.

One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

I don’t hate anyone including my enemies.

The highest religious and spiritual ideals of any faith would invite us to a compassion for all lives destroyed by the violence that plagues us.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

I would never talking about hating a fighter. I don't hate no one.

Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.

Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.

Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.

I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.

It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.

True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

I never had a desire to hurt anybody.

Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.