Henry Miller Quotes

Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.

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.

As a person, I'm anti-violence.

Unless now the world adopts nonviolence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

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

This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.

I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others.

I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why should I hurt thee? This world is surely wide enough to hold both thee and me.

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

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

It really is a strange time we're living in, when saying 'Don't kill people' is considered a radical point of view.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

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.

Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.

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

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

I'm the type of person who tries to save the world.

I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.