Quotes on Violence And Peace

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy... In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

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.

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.