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When somebody is angry with us, we draw a halo around his or her head, in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well, we don't know! We know, though, that when we draw a halo around a person, suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us.Collection: Peace
Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.Collection: Peace
How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?Collection: Peace
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.Collection: Peace
Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.Collection: Peace
Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.Collection: Peace
Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.Collection: Peace
I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it.Collection: Peace
The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.Collection: Peace
Peace and love are eternal.Collection: Peace
Today, the world is so small and so interdependent that the concept of war has become anachronistic, an outmoded approach. As a rule, we always talk about reform and changes. Among the old traditions, there are many aspects that are either ill-suited to our present reality or are counterproductive due to their shortsightedness. These, we have consigned to the dustbin of history. War too should be relegated to the dustbin of history.Collection: Peace
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.Collection: Peace
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.Collection: Peace
I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.Collection: Peace
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive good will proclaim the rule of the land.Collection: Peace
We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.Collection: Peace
Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the objectCollection: Peace
We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.Collection: Peace
Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.Collection: Peace
It is a question of our own peace and mental stability.Collection: Peace
But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.Collection: Peace
...We have an historic opportunity for a great global healing and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent activism with faith, courage, and determination, we can bring this great vision of a world united in peace and harmony from a distant ideal into glowing reality.Collection: Peace
We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we will not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peaceCollection: Peace
I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self.Collection: Peace
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.Collection: Peace
And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased him to assign as a dwelling-place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations.Collection: Peace
A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.Collection: Peace
Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.Collection: Peace
I believe all religions pursue the same goals, that of cultivating human goodness and bringing happiness to all human beings. Though the means might appear different the ends are the same.Collection: Peace
Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.Collection: Peace
To me there is something completely and satisfyingly restful in that stretch of sea and sand, sea and sand and sky - complete peace, complete fulfillment.Collection: Peace
And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.Collection: Peace
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.Collection: Peace
We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.Collection: Peace
And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.Collection: Peace
Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. Yes it is love that will save our world and civilization; love even for our enemies.Collection: Peace
The question of world peace, the question of family peace, the question of peace between wife and husband, or peace between parents and children, everything is dependent on that feeling of love and warmheartedness.Collection: Peace
There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs.Collection: Peace
We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.Collection: Peace
World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting point. Those of us who believe in this method can be voices of reason, sanity, and understanding amid the voices of violence, hatred, and emotion. We can very well set a mood of peace out of which a system of peace can be built.Collection: Peace
Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.Collection: Peace
In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate campaigns. To retaliate with hate and bitterness would do nothing but intensify the hate in the world. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can be done only by projecting the ethics of love to the center of our lives.Collection: Peace
If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.Collection: Peace
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.Collection: Peace
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.Collection: Peace
Without changing one's self, without peace in one's self, world peace is not possible.Collection: Peace
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.Collection: Peace
One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.Collection: Peace
One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication to discern that while everbody talks about peace, peace has become practically nobody's business among the power-wielders. Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.Collection: Peace