Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture read more

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept read more

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would read more

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor; and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can read more

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's read more

Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. read more

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.