I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

No violent extreme endures.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows – pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

‚Some Kind Of Monster‘ is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you’re watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

I’ve never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they’re like, ‚Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,‘ but I’m like, ‚I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,‘ so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

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.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

The root of this possibility of doing good – that we all have – is in creation.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.