A peacemaker does not mean a peaceful person.

- Lanza Del Vasto

Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonv…

- Lanza Del Vasto

The machine enslaves, the hand sets free.

- Lanza Del Vasto

The most efficient action, the most significant testimony to nonviolence, is living a life in which there is no violence-showing that such a life is …

- Lanza Del Vasto

Find the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands, and the mouth.

- Lanza Del Vasto

You want a better, more fraternal, more just world? Well then, start building it: Who is stopping you? Build it inside yourself and around you, build…

- Lanza Del Vasto

In the practice of any craft, we are less concerned with the quantity of the product than with its quality, and less concerned with the product than …

- Lanza Del Vasto