How can they trust us when now we charge them with violence ... while we pour new weapons of death into their land? ... Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence — when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know of his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weakness of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.
Martin Luther-King
Men of the Wealthy Classes Base their Justification of their Position by Force and Fraud, and Still Pretend to be Christians to One Another and be Easy in their Minds - This Hypocrisy Allows Men who Preach Christianity to Take Part in Institutions Based on Violence .
All Men Feel the Iniquity of our Life, and would Long Ago have Transformed it if it had not been Dissimulated by Hypocrisy - But Seem to have Reached the Extreme Limits of Hypocrisy, and we Need only Make an Effort of Conscience to Awaken as from a Nightmare to a Different Reality.
Leo Tolstoy
Man's ultimate liberty cannot be defended by war; indeed, the very act of going to war marks its loss.
Vernard Eller
Science of war leads one to dictatorship pure and simple. Science of non-violence can alone lead one to pure democracy. I object to violence because, when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
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 the humans. Man lives freely 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.
In my opinion--non-violence is not passivity in any shape or form. Non-violence, as I understand it, is the most active force in the world...Non-violence is the supreme law. During my half a century of experience, I have not yet come across a situation when I had to say that I was helpless, that I had no remedy in terms of non-violence.
Ghandi
