Aphorisms and quotes about violence
Violence is the last refuge of incompetence. Isaac Asimov
If the screen does not knock out the brains, a baton comes to the rescue. Arkady Davidovich
Violence must be answered with violence. Thucydides
The courage of nonviolence is many times greater than the courage of violence. Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is invincible. Mahatma Gandhi
Never resort to violence unless you are stronger. Gabriel Laub
Injustice is achieved in two ways: either by violence or by deception. Cicero Marcus Tullius
Violence is allowed to be repelled by force. (Statement of Roman civil law.) Unknown author
Do not kill the one who has found a home in the sea; do not make the living flesh of four-legged animals food. There is no need to feed beautiful animals milk: How will a stolen udder comfort a child? Do not attack the bird by surprise, do not rob the winged one: Violence is a grave sin that threatens retribution. Violence is the essence of people; our world is rich in violence; And people will not harm their neighbors just out of necessity. As-Samarkandi
Friends should live in complete harmony. Violence can stifle friendship. Geoffrey Chaucer
Any violent measure is fraught with new evil. Francis Bacon
Only anger and fear force people to use violence. Francis Bacon
Violence is the essence of war. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forcibly subjugating colonies usually costs more than they are worth. Thomas Babington Macaulay
One act of violence can only be eradicated by another similar act. Karl Marx
How hateful is wisdom to me, Which calls you to blood! Johann Friedrich Schiller
Violence cannot be regulated and used only to a certain extent. If we only allow violence, it will always cross the boundaries that we would like to set for it. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Violence, if it allows itself to linger, becomes power. Elias Canetti
The use of violence is justified only under tyranny that excludes the possibility of nonviolent reform, and must have the sole purpose of creating a situation that allows for nonviolent reform. Karl Raymund Popper
Violence and the threat of violence, due to the inevitable pragmatism of any action, give rise to new violence. Max Weber
Recourse to violence and means of coercion not only from the outside, but also within its borders is characteristic of every political union. Max Weber
If the authorities preach violence, then the rapists themselves take the next word. Johan Huizinga
Legal violence is almost imperceptible to us because it is too familiar. Dmitry Sergeevich Merezhkovsky
To conquer violence is to conquer death. Dmitry Sergeevich Merezhkovsky
Violence is necessary to overcome the obstacles erected by a rigidly organized society, and it is beneficial for the individual, as it provides an outlet for his energy and allows him to realize his own strengths. Paul Karl Feyerabend
Where violent acts are common, they are tolerated. Emile Durkheim
We must fight violence, but the desire to avoid it at all costs would mean abandoning the solution of all great human problems. Emmanuel Mounier
Pure violence can only be temporary. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Gandhi Quotes
Prepared by: Dmitry Sirotkin
Compiled a selection of quotes from Indian politician Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948).
He is known as the leading ideologist of the Indian independence movement.
Quotes are grouped by topics: life ethics, about oneself, action, religion and God, life, man, non-violence, freedom, change, politics, inner voice, nations, family, love, purpose, honesty, strength, prayer, India, criticism, animals, truth, self-control, ideal, future, money, conscience, peace, poverty.
Quotes about Gandhi are provided.
About life ethics
Live as if you will die tomorrow. Study as if you intend to live forever.
Love and truth are two sides of the same coin.
Overcome hatred with love, injustice with truth, violence with patience.
We will be destroyed by politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, wealth without work, knowledge without character, business without morals, science without humanity and prayer without sacrifice.
The difference between good and best is the ability to give up what you want for what you need.
If you don't ask, you won't know.
What is possible for one is possible for all.
The useful and the useless, like good and evil in general, develop together, and a person must be able to make a choice for himself.
It is not very wise to be confident in your own wisdom. It must be remembered that the strongest can show weakness, and the wisest can make a mistake.
A “No” said with deep conviction is better than a “Yes” said only to please or, worse, to avoid problems.
Let us respect our opponents for the same honesty of motives that we claim ourselves.
About Me
They call me a saint who was ruined by politics. In reality, I am a politician who is doing everything possible to become a saint.
I declare that I am an ordinary person who is prone to error, like any mortal person. However, I have enough humility to admit my mistakes and back down.
I am a Hindu, I am a Muslim, I am a Jew, I am a Christian, I am a Buddhist!
My patriotism is not limited to one nation; it is all-embracing, and I am ready to renounce that kind of patriotism that builds the well-being of one nation on the exploitation of others.
I will not allow anyone to walk with dirty feet into my consciousness.
Usually, when I am in despair, I remember many episodes of history. Throughout the centuries, truth and love have always won. Yes, there have been many omnipotent tyrants in history, but in the end they all failed. Remember this in difficult moments of life.
If I didn't have a sense of humor, I would have committed suicide long ago.
About the action
Do or die.
Whatever you do in life will be insignificant. But it's very important that you do this.
Grams of action are worth more than tons of prayer.
A gram of your own experience is worth more than a ton of other people’s instructions.
You need to know when to act and when to refrain from acting. Action and inaction in these circumstances are akin and by no means contradict each other.
The action itself is important, not its fruits. You must do good deeds. Maybe it is not in your control or the time has not come to receive some fruits. But this does not mean that you should not do good. You may never know the results of your actions. But if you don't do anything, there will be no results.
Once started, you cannot abandon it, unless it turns out to be morally unhealthy.
About religion and God
Whoever claims that religion has nothing to do with politics does not know what religion is.
Knowledge in the field of religion, as opposed to experience, seems like nothing in moments of trial.
God is love; this is the only truth that I wholeheartedly accept. Love is equal to God.
God speaks to us every day. We just don't know how to hear it.
There is no God above truth.
For a person with an empty stomach, God is food.
God pleases not the quantity, but the quality of our work.
By the way, quotes about religion
About life
There is life only where there is love.
Life without love is death.
The only way to live is to let others live.
Live simply, so that others can simply live.
There are more important things to do in life than just increasing its pace.
The world is big enough to satisfy the needs of any person, but too small to satisfy human greed.
Birth and death are not two different states, but different aspects of one state.
By the way, quotes about life
About a human
Man is a product of his own thoughts. What he thinks about is what he becomes.
A person is a person because he is capable of self-restraint, and remains a person only insofar as he does this in practice.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops in the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Civilization in the true sense of the word does not consist in the multiplication of needs, but in the free and well-thought-out limitation of one's desires.
It has always been a mystery to me: how people can respect themselves while humiliating people like themselves.
Fearlessness is essential for the development of other noble qualities. Is it possible to seek truth or carefully cherish love without courage?
By the way, quotes about a person
About nonviolence
Non-violence is not the destiny of cowardice, it is always heroism.
I am against violence. Because when evil seems to do good, that good doesn't last long. But evil remains forever.
If you encounter an enemy, conquer him with love.
Victory achieved by violence is tantamount to defeat, because it is short-lived.
The principle of "an eye for an eye" will make the whole world blind.
It is a bad habit to assert that others think wrongly, but we think correctly, and that those who hold different views from us are enemies of the fatherland.
It is better to be cruel, if cruelty is in our hearts, than to try to cover our powerlessness with a veil of non-violence.
About freedom
Freedom is worthless if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Man is the master of his own destiny in the sense that he has the freedom to manage his freedom. But what this will lead to is unknown to man.
My conviction is that no man loses freedom except through his own weakness.
No one can hurt me without my consent.
I can't stand walls and fences. The sky, which covers the whole earth with its gaze, the wind, which meets no obstacles, the ocean, washing all the shores - this is the ideal.
By the way, quotes about freedom
About the changes
If you want the world to change, become that change.
Start changing what you want to change around you.
Our human greatness does not lie in the ability to change the world, that is just a myth of the atomic age. This is an opportunity to change yourself.
A small body, conditioned by the spirit and inspired by an unquenchable belief in its mission, can change the course of history.
When you are at war with someone, decide: do you want revenge or change the world?
About politics
We shouldn't be speakers who don't listen. But there should not be listeners who do not speak.
One should always look for an opportunity to unite with that part of the enemy that knows what is fair.
The cracks of empires are dripping with tears.
What difference does it make for the dead, orphans and homeless people in the name of what tyranny and destruction are happening - in the name of totalitarianism or in the name of sacred democracy and liberalism?
By the way, quotes about politics
About the inner voice
The only tyrant in the world that I agree to accept is a quiet voice coming from the depths of my soul.
Everyone who wants to know the Universe must listen to his inner voice. It is inside each of us.
Don't listen to your friends when the friend inside of you says, “Do this.”
The best way to find yourself is to stop serving other people.
About nations
Just as a man will not care to live in a body other than his own, so nations do not like to live under the domination of other nations, no matter how noble and great they may be.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it treats animals.
In order to achieve its prosperity, Britain needed the resources of half the planet. How many such planets are needed for India to achieve the same level of well-being?
About family
A good seed thrown into a child’s soul is not wasted.
By educating a man, we are educating one man. By educating a woman, we are educating an entire family.
The difference between heterogeneous and homogeneous families is imaginary. We are all members of the same family.
By the way, quotes about family
About love
I firmly believe that the world is built on love.
Love never demands, it always gives. Love suffers without ever regretting it and never trying to avenge itself.
Where there is no will, there is no love.
By the way, quotes about love
About the goal
Find the goal, and the means will find themselves.
The main goal of life is to live right, think right, act right. If you think only about the body, the soul withers.
Greatness is in trying to achieve a goal, not in achieving it.
By the way, quotes about the goal
About Honesty
Honest disagreement is often a sign of success.
Doing a scrupulously honest business is difficult, but it is possible... It is also true that honesty is incompatible with the accumulation of great wealth.
The deceiver ultimately deceives himself.
About strength
Strength is in the absence of fear, not in the number of muscles on our body.
The source of strength is not in physical capabilities, but in unbending will.
The ability to forgive is a characteristic of the strong. The weak never forgive.
By the way, quotes about strength
About prayer
Prayer is the key to tomorrow and the door bolt to yesterday.
In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
The ardent and pure dictates of the heart are always fulfilled.
About India
I want freedom for my country so that other countries can learn something from my free country.
I am engaged to India, I owe her everything. I cannot express my feeling for India more clearly than by identifying it with my feeling for my wife. She excites me like no other woman in the world. Not because she's perfect. I dare say she has many more flaws than I see. But there is a feeling of indissolubility here. The same applies to Hinduism, with all its errors and limitations.
About criticism
Throughout my life, I have benefited more from my critic friends than from fans, especially when the criticism was expressed in polite and friendly language.
The right to subject people to the most severe criticism is deserved by the one who has convinced them of his love for them, of the soundness of his judgments, who is sure that he will not be worried at all if people do not accept his ideas and do not use them. In other words, the critic needs the gift of a clear perception of the world and unlimited tolerance.
About animals
In my opinion, the life of a lamb is no less valuable than the life of a human being.
I maintain that the more helpless a creature is, the greater the right it has to receive protection against the cruelty of man.
About truth
In order to contemplate the universal and omnipresent spirit of truth, one must be able to love the most despicable creature - oneself.
Let hundreds of people like me die, but the truth will triumph.
About self-control
When you achieve self-control and learn to control your passions, you will forget what despair is.
There is no truth in a person who cannot control his tongue.
About the ideal
The value of an ideal is that it moves away as one approaches it.
As soon as you believe that you have achieved the ideal, further development stops and you begin to move backwards.
About future
The future depends on what you do today.
I don't want to predict the future. I care about the present. God has not given me the ability to control what will happen.
About money
You can rely on the promises of any person in many matters, with the exception of money.
In both justice and war, the biggest money ultimately wins.
By the way, quotes about money
About conscience
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority does not apply.
A person will never reach the point where the quiet, quiet voice of conscience is heard.
About the world
There is no path to peace; peace is the way.
If we want to achieve real peace in the world, we must start with children.
By the way, quotes about peace
About poverty
The rich should live easier so that the poor can simply survive.
Don't waste your money on helping the poor - that's their karma.
About miscellaneous
Happiness is when your thoughts, words and actions are consistent with each other.
True beauty lies in the purity of the heart.
Praise cannot strengthen virtue. It is best to remain silent about the good done by man. Following a good example is the sincerest praise.
I love the wind of all cultures at my doorstep, as long as it doesn't knock me off my feet.
The newspaper is a great force, but just as an unchecked stream fills the banks and destroys crops, so the uncontrolled pen of a journalist serves only to destroy. Control is only beneficial when it comes from within.
As we see from the quotes of Mahatma Gandhi, he somehow managed to combine political activity and spiritual life . As is known, in practice this is extremely rarely possible.
Quotes about Gandhi
- L. Tolstoy: Just now and last night I was reading a book sent to me with a letter by a Hindu thinker and fighter against English rule, Gandhi, who is fighting through Passive Resistance. He is a very close person to us and to me. He read my writings, translated my letter to a Hindu into Hindu, and his book Indian Home Rule in Hindu was banned by the British government. (by the way, quotes from Leo Tolstoy)
- I. Gandhi: As long as there is oppression and degradation of the human spirit in the world, people will always turn to Mahatma Gandhi to assert their dignity. The weapons of nonviolent resistance that he gave to humanity are now being used in other countries and in other contexts. The world rightly considers Gandhi the greatest Hindu after Buddha.
- W. Churchill: It is alarming and disgusting to see Gandhi, this rebel of petty lawyers, acting as a half-naked fakir, walking along the steps of the Viceroy's palace. (by the way, quotes from Winston Churchill)
- J. Nehru: In this small, physically weak man, there was something hard, like steel, indestructible, like a rock, something that no physical strength, no matter how great, could cope with... He had what -that regal grandeur that inspired involuntary respect from those around...
- J. Orwell: You can, like me, feel a kind of aesthetic hostility towards Gandhi, you can disagree with those who see him as a saint (by the way, he himself never claimed exceptional righteousness), you can generally reject the ideal of holiness and based on from this we consider Gandhi's main goals to be inhumane and reactionary: but if we see in him only a political figure and compare him with other leading politicians of our century, how pure the atmosphere that he left behind will seem! (by the way, quotes from George Orwell)
- A. Einstein: The moral influence that Gandhi had on thinking people is much stronger than seems possible in our time with his excess of brute force. We are grateful to fate for giving us such a brilliant contemporary, showing the way for future generations. (by the way, quotes from Albert Einstein)
- F. Dyson: The moral of Gandhi's life and death is that pacifism as a political program is much more difficult to implement than as a personal ethic.
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