Those who attempt to conquer hatred by hatred are like warriors who take weapons to overcome others who bear arms. This does not end hatred, but gives it room to grow. But, ancient wisdom has advocate...
Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
I am not a committed pacifist. I would not hold that it is under all imaginable circumstances wrong to use violence, even though use of violence is in some sense unjust. I believe that one has to esti...
I tell you that what has changed is the whole conception of human life- that men of every race on this earth may have the same opportunity to live beautifully- to live in purity without fear or hunger...
The common depiction of Jesus as an inveterate peacemaker who loved his enemies and turned the other cheek has been built mostly on his portrayal as an apolitical preacher with no interest in or, for...
The speaker calls for a careful examination of Christ's principle of turning the other cheek before we use it as a demand or excuse for total personal pacifism. After all, when literally struck on the...
Pacifists have usually regarded the use of violence as absolutely wrong, irrespective of its consequences. This, like other ‘no matter what’ prohibitions, assumes the validity of the distinction betwe...
Marko: No matter what mistakes you've see your daddy make, violence---magical or otherwise---is never acceptable.Petrichor: Nonsense, Marko. Violence is often : in self-defense, the arts foreplay...Ha...
It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write what I want to say as well as what I did) feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that...
I was peace pipes and treaties. My style was to talk and duck. It was an animal tactic, playing dead in hopes that the predators would move to an actual fight.
I think it's good to smile at everybody so that everyone knows you love everyone. It's good for human pacifism.
They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.
To be a pacifist in the face of evil is to be complicit with evil.
If I went on a killing spree that left thousands of people dead, I'd be branded as the worst kind of criminal. So why it is okay for the government to do exactly that?
But you invite ...I invite a bit of military nonsense.That’s what I ...Duncan, I am a teacher. Remember that. By repetition, I impress the lesson. What lesson? The ultimately suicidal nature of milita...
All beings tremble before danger, all fear death. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill.
It would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable of thought stood for reason and the love of peace instead of heading wildly with blind obsessio...
Say what you want but you NEVER say it with violence!
So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people.
Writers haven't got any rockets to blast off. We don't even trundle the most insignificant auxiliary vehicle. We haven't got any military might. So what can literature do in the face of the merciless...
Showing 21 to 40 of 42 results