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“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.”

“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

“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.”

“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”

“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.”

“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”