Violence And Peace Quotes:

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Peace, Fear, Liars, Media Violence, Kings And Love

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Revenge, Hate, May, Non Violence, Descending

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Peace, War, Social Evils, Media Violence

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Peace, Believe, Belief, International Relations, Calm And Peace

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962

topic: Inspirational, Peace, Freedom, Social Revolution, American Revolution

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace, Make Peace Not War, Lack Of Understanding

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Make Peace Not War, Inspirational Science

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

- Albert Camus

topic: Peace, Humanity, Battle, Peace Tranquility, Peace And Tranquility

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

- Dorothy Thompson

topic: Peace, War, Ubuntu, Mediation, Passive Aggressive

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Social Equality, Love And Hate

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Life, Peace, Honesty, Animal Cruelty, Non Violence

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

- Isaac Asimov

source: Isaac Asimov (1951). “The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction”

topic: Wise, Peace, Military, War And Death, Violence Against Women

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Peace, War, Fighting, Make Peace Not War, Soldiers At War

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Peace, Truth, Yoga, International Peace Day, Non Violence

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

- Albert Camus

topic: Wisdom, Peace, Jobs, Masters And Slaves, Peace Not War

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Peace, Force, Mankind, Non Violence, Ingenuity

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Peace, Heart, Being Sad, Non Violence, Peace Of Heart

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

- Malcolm X

topic: Peace, Gun, Sometimes, Violence And Peace

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate...

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Hate, Social Equality, Love And Hate, Make Peace Not War, Social Programs

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Peace, Poverty, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Love, Revenge, Men, Peace And Love, Kings And Love

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace, Inner Peace And Happiness, International Peace Day

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.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Believe, Order, Punishment, Will To Fight, Patriotic Gun

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Peace, War, 4th Of July, International Peace Day, Good War

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Hate, Violence, Social Equality, Kings And Love, Police Brutality

War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

source: "On Being Fit to Live with: Sermons on Post-war Christianity".

topic: Inspirational, Fear, War, Just War, War And Death

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

source: Nobel lecture as quoted in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, 1974.

topic: Peace, War, Lying, Antiwar, Violence And Peace

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Life, Peace, Heart, Peace Of Heart, Being At Peace

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

- A. J. Muste

source: Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967

topic: Peace, Way, International Peace Day, Peacekeeping, Peace Sign

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

- Richard Grenier

topic: Strength, Wisdom, Veterans Day, Inspirational Good Night, Military Force

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Peace, Truth, Violence, Violence And Peace

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

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Animal, Savages, Stills, Inspirational Animal, Animal Cruelty

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

- Joan Baez

topic: Peace, Organized, Nonviolence, Violence And Peace

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.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Struggle, Discipline, Creative, Non Violence, Physical Violence

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Peace, Anger, Pride, Violence And Peace

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.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Truth, Doe, Hammers, Hammered, Violence And Peace

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Peace, Revenge, Men, Kings Speech, Non Violence

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

- Cesar Chavez

topic: Peace, Firsts, Principles, Violence And Peace, Unionism

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Peace, War, Mean, Maintaining Peace, Peacefulness

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Law, Justice, Anarchy, Law Breaking, Non Violence

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Courage, Peace, Men, Non Violence, Ingenuity

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Being Strong, Peace, Non Violence, Moral Growth

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Peace, Truth, Violence, Violence And Peace

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Peace, Violence, Firsts, Non Violence, Violence And Peace

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Indomitable, Indomitable Spirit

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

- Albert Einstein

source: "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

topic: Courage, Moving, Simple, Software Design, Something Bigger Than Yourself

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Outer Worlds, Making A Difference In The World