Baha 'u'llah Quotes

Die if you must, but never kill.

I am prepared to die but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

I always say that non-violence is not the weapon of the weak. It is the weapon of the strong.

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away

He who turns the other cheek will get hit with the other fist.

Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.

Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.

Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.

Pacifism is a nice idea but it can get you killed. We're not there yet. Evolution is slow, small pox is fast.

The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process.

If we pick a fight, then we're just as bad as them. Combat should be used just to help people who can't defend themselves, period." "Well, if I don't fight back and they pound on me, then I'm one of the people I should be defending.

Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist

I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.