"When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim
or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you
see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of
mankind.
When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind." Freedom from the Known, p.51-52 |
"To have peace, one must employ peaceful means; for if the means are violent, how can
the end be peaceful?"
Education and the Significance of Life, p.59 |