When I feel angry, I want to say something mean, or yell, or hit. But feeling like I want to is not the same as doing it. Feeling can’t hurt anyone or get me into...

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

Cultural indoctrination makes stupid people believe there’s nothing wrong in Meat Eating. There is. Who eat it, lose “It”.

…if we do not know how to defend ourselves, our women and our places of worship by force of suffering, i.e., nonviolence, we must, if we are men, be at least able to defend all...

When I say that we must establish values with originate in sisterhood, I mean to say that we must not accept, even for a moment, male notions of what non-violence is. These notions have never...

There’s plenty of food, other than non-vegetarian, here, on this earth. So, don’t hurt, kill and eat animals to increase your girth

As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it’s highly unlikely we’ll ever have peace.

Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.

Do your thing, without harming anything.

Peace is a deeper reality than violence.”p. 231

Nonviolence aims at doing no harm to living being. Compassion aims at doing good to all being.

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in the smoke of confabulation. There can be no peace on earth...

Compassion stands on the pillars of trust, love, awareness and detachment.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

In the use of force, one simplifies the situation by assuming that the evil to be overcome is clear-cut, definite, and irreversible. Hence there remains but one thing: to eliminate it. Any dialogue with the...

Compassion means removal of suffering – suffering of the self and the others.

Gandhi Topi’ is no longer an attire of the pacifist.

The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped...

Men jag kan inte döda någon’, sa Jonatan, ’det vet du, Orvar!’ […] ’Om alla vore som du’, sa Orvar, ’då skulle ju ondskan få regera i all evinnerlighet!’ Men då sa jag att om...

Another site of Leftist struggle [other than Detroit] that has parallels to New Orleans: Palestine. From the central role of displacement to the ways in which culture and community serve as tools of resistance, there...

Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace.

From now on there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I...

To achieve peace, it is crucial to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy that prevents peace processes from advancing.

There is no such thing as a “just” war. It’s just war. And it’s antithetical to the Gospel.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

We are killing, every one of us, every moment of the day – just by living. And if one realizes this, is this very realization itself not a conscious consent to murder? If a truly...