Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.
Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.
If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.
A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.
Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.
Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.
We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.
The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form.
To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.
By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.
The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.
It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side ‘deserves’ to succeed.
The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one’s self respect and religious conviction.
None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.
Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.
The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.
For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.
The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.
The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.