Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

Violence on the community stops when the soul matures.

When I was a small boy, if we had a problem, we would fight about it with our fists. We wouldn't shoot somebody, killing them or wounding them. That's not hard to do. I would like people to put down the guns. If you have a problem, talk about it or fight about it.

If there were no guns, we couldn't talk about it, ... You turn on TV, you see soldiers marching with guns. We only talk about things that's happening.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!

Personally, I would love to see every gun on the planet disappear.

I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

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.

Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions by many people in many countries. It is an attitude, a way of life, a way of solving problems and resolving conflicts.

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

People must lean the strategies of non-violence as a skill for use in their homes, their work and in making social change….Violence is an inarticulate language.

Violence against violence? That will never solve the problem.

You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it.

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.

I believe the gun is no solution to problems.

We have an epidemic of gun violence in America, and in trying to understand how that has happened, part of what we need to do is help equip our children to respond not with fear but with kindness. This has to be the way we go forward.

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.

Military intervention is never the answer.

I hate violence. When I hold a gun, I feel death in my hands, but it's fun to pretend in the movies.

Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.