Charlotte Bronte Quotes

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.

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

I'd never hurt another person.

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

When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.

Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.

We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

War would end if the dead could return.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

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

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

Let’s open our hearts to [crime] victims and their families and give them something more than vengeance.

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.

hate is a virus, revenge its only cure!

We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.

Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.