Believe Quote by Dalai Lama

Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.

— Taylor Sheridan

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

— Steven Pinker

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still…

— Thomas A. Edison

If the basic human nature was aggressive, we would have been born with animal claws & huge teeth -- but ours are very short,…

— Dalai Lama

So many people around the world have used nonviolence as a way to resolve a conflict that they faced in their lives. And they…

— Arun Manilal Gandhi

We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Having been created in the image and likeness of God, unlike trees or flowers or fire or the moon, we are most fully human…

— Daniel Horan

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than…

— Katherine Dunn

I am not [...] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie within the…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being…

— Richard Wright

Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They…

— Mahatma Gandhi