Non-Violence Quotes

One of the things I love about wen wu is its encouragement of developing the spiritual and intellectual aspects of the self that are actually more important than the development of the body and the capacity to commit violence - which is how much of Western pop culture defines a man.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

We deeply deplore the recent acts of lawlessness and violence that have brought utmost disgrace to the fair name of India and the greatest misery to innocent people, irrespective of who were the aggressors and who were the victims. We denounce for all time the use of force to achieve political ends and we call upon all the communities in India, to whatever persuasion they may belong, not only to refrain from all acts of violence and disorder but also to avoid, both in speech and in writing, any incitement to such acts.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Even in war moral power is to physical as three parts out of four.

No people in the world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed must being in blood, whatever may answer afterward.

I never use my sword when the lash suffices, nor the lash when my tongue is enough.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must find a way of settling your disputes without resort to arms.

Ideas can never be defeated by military force. They can only be defeated by better ideas.

Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist

I have no enemies and no hatred. None of the police who monitored, arrested, and interrogated me, none of the prosecutors who indicted me, and none of the judges who judged me are my enemies.

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

Make peace, you fools!

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

No man has the right to initiate the use of physical force against others.

Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.

No one may threaten or commit violence ('aggress') against another man's person or property. Violence may be employed only against the man who commits such violence; that is, only defensively against the aggressive violence of another. In short, no violence may be employed against a non-aggressor. Here is the fundamental rule from which can be deduced the entire corpus of libertarian theory.

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.

Only a dead nation remembers its heroes when they die. Real nations respect them when they are alive.

I have no enemies and no hatred.

Nobody should consider himself superior to another nor do him harm.

Make Love, Not War

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

Even amidst the violent attacks launched against us for months past, we call upon the sons of the Arab people dwelling in Israel to keep the peace and to play their part in building the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its institutions, provisional and permanent.