Merle Haggard Quotes

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life. We cannot support any act of killing; no killing can be justified. But not to kill is not enough ... If in your thinking you allow the killing to go on, you also break this precept. We must be determined not to condone killing, even in our minds.

Look,' I said, struggling to keep up, 'I just wanna make one thing absolutely clear. I don't believe in guns. I just want peace. Okay?' Alessandro stopped in the middle of the corridor, took out the gun, and wrapped my hand around it before I realized what he was doing. 'Can you feel that? That's a gun. It exists. And there are a lot of people out there who do believe in it. So, excused me for taking care of them so you can have your peace.

I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.

Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

We make war that we may live in peace.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. Bella suscipienda sunt ob eam causam, ut sine injuria in pace vivatur.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that

Unless now the world adopts nonviolence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

Peace is a human right and those who deny you peace are those who are violating an essential right.

I want peace and am willing to fight for it.

Yoiu have to fight in order to live in peace.

Violence has never resolved any issue.

We don't need military weapons in our society. We're not supposed to be at war with one another.

I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.