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"When seeking revenge, dig two graves." --Chinese proverb
"As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy." -- Christopher Dawson
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
"If you who are seeking love and truth cannot rise above the illusion of turmoil, how can those who are locked in it be helped? It is you who are empowered through the strength of your love, your commitment to truth, who will bring about the elevation of consciousness of those who are wracked in such fear that they would destroy the world rather than acknowledge their own terror." -- Emmanuel
"The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe." -- Joanna Macy
"Every human being is your counterpart. Every other human being possesses and embodies aspects of yourself: your dreams, your sorrows, your hope that your life will not turn out to be a joke. For each of us there was a time when the world was young, a springtime of spirit that was later tested by the winters of discontent; and in the midst of each of our lives lies the haunting shadow of death. Therefore we are all quite alike; indeed at the core we are all one, all lost - and found - in the same mysterious enterprise that is life. Hold this in your heart as you go about your day, and the world will cease to be inhabited by strangers, and the burden of life itself will no longer be a process of loneliness." -- Daphne Rose Kingma
(The following are quotes from Mohandas K. Gandhi.)
Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.
Democracy and violence can ill go together.
Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.
Hatred ever kills, love never dies; such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred.
It may be long before the law of love will be recognized in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.
To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must be loved is not a friend.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Violent means will give violent freedom.
However much I may sympathize with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation, and a wicked deed disapprobation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be.
Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralizing, cowardice always is.
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.
Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.
It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, ruled us we should have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilized men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.
Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man
--Mohandas K. Gandhi
Gandhi was once asked what he thought about western civilization. His response was: "I think it would be a good idea."
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." - Albert Einstein
"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold." - Leonardo da Vinci
"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 Edison
"The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo." - Albert Schweitzer
"People living deeply have no fear of death." - Anais Nin
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatsoever that it is not entirely absurd." - Bertrand Russell
"There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion." - Carl G. Jung
"'There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.' said Sherlock Holmes." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"It is the weak who are cruel; gentleness is to be expected only from the strong." - Leo Rosten
"Paradise is always where love dwells." - Richter
"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace." - Albert Schweitzer
"The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." - Kahlil Gibran
"Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be." - Lactantius
"One common mistake is to think that one reality is THE reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one." - Mother Meera
"It is you who are empowered through the strength of your love, your commitment to truth, who will bring about the elevation of consciousness of those who are wracked in such fear that they would destroy the world rather than acknowledge their own terror." - Emmanuel
"We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us." - Thomas Merton
"Those who indulge in violence for whatever reason are themselves changed, their purity adulterated." - Seth
"Negativity has within it the seeds of its own destruction." - Emmanuel
"You learn to love by putting yourself in situations that challenge you to be loving." - Orin
"A human being is a part of the whole that we call the universe, (yet) he experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical illusion of his consciousness. This illusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for only the few people nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature." - Albert Einstein
"The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts." - Sir Arthur Keith
"Never mistake motion for progress." - Mark Twain
"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong, and multiplies, instead of indemnifying, losses." -Thomas Jefferson
"After something like this, there will be a desire to strike back. What will be hard for us, given our national psyche, is that we cannot. We don't know who, or where, to strike." - General Norman Schwartzkopf
"If I knew the world would end tomorrow, today I would plant an apple tree." - Martin Luther
(Thanks to Richard Vines for most of the above quotes.)
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.--Thomas Jefferson
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.--Benjamin Franklin
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force.--Emerson
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. The chain reaction of evil must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the darkness of annihilation.--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.--H.A. Overstreet
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.--Charles Darwin
The mind can only solve problems of logic. It is the heart that solves problems of life.--Jody Bower
Your mind is merely a servant, and it behaves well if it is given positive impulses; it behaves very poorly if it is given negative impulses. The mind assumes that it understands whatever it controls. This is the central problem in a mind-dominated world. Substituting control for understanding will only deplete your life, leaving it stripped of richness, power, and meaning. The answers to healing your life will be found in the inner strength of your heart.-- Glenda Green
We look forward to the time when the power of love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessing of peace.--William Ewart Gladstone
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us, too. I can feel the suffering of millions, and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again. In the meantime, I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.--Anne Frank
