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"The jihadists ideology cannot be wiped out with force much less killed. You know, unless we understand the root causes of this, we're going to perpetuate this violence over and over again."
"There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out."
"The essence of God is consciousness. Consciousness can be used for either violence or peace; the choice is ours. When it is expanded, human consciousness chooses non-violence, since that is compatible with love."
"I don't think I make genre movies. There is a certain type of violence in my films but I think I have my own genre because I made it happen like that."
"Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy."
"The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together."
"Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness."
"The kind of violence one should fear is always quiet and comes all wrapped up in words like Love until you live with it daily and you value only that which is valuable to the violator."
"A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others."
"Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly."
"I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever."
"Poverty is the greatest violence."
"Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love."
"Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence."
"Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament."
"I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence."
"The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy."
"If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way."
"Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used."
"Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life."
