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Violence often brings about momentary results.
Sep 10, 2025
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'
If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
Any culture which can put a man on the Moon is capable of gathering all the nations of the earth in peace, justice and concord.
You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.
"Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty."
Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.
Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.
Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.
We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies
Without justice and love, peace will always be a great illusion.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?
How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
I am only one, But still I am one.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
You can't shake hands with a closed fist.
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
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.
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.
Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.