Jake Arrieta Quotes

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

I'd never hurt another person.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

The power to stay your hand is far greater than the power to strike with your hand and hinsa has no place in the society.

I have spent over 50 years preaching and teaching the values of peace, mutual respect and altruism.

Never let anyone go home feeling bad at night. You can bark away during the day, but you must always put that right.

Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness.

War would end if the dead could return.

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being.

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

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

What I try to do is never to hurt anybody else and figure if I don't, then I'm not likely to get hurt myself.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

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

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.