I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.

Two or three centuries from now it will be recognized that all the competent killers are Christians; then the pagan world will go to school to the Christian—not to acquire his religion, but his guns. The Turk and the Chinaman will buy those to kill missionaries and converts with.

All men will confess that without Christian civilization war must have remained a poor and trifling thing to the end of time.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

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 his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses 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.

Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.

The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot his opponent, but he refuses to hate him. And he stands with understanding, goodwill at all times.

In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of East and West, white and colored, individuals and collectivists; in a world whose cultural and spiritual power lags so far behind her technological capabilities that we live each day on the verge of nuclear co-annihilation; in this world, nonviolence is no longer an option for intellectual analysis, it is an imperative for action