I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their prisoner.
We don't need to respond with desperate violence.
Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.
I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself.
Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.
Inner disarmament, external disarmament; these must go together, you see. Peace is not just mere absence of violence - genuine peace must start in each individual heart.
Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.
Violence will only increase the cycle of violence.
All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.
I believe violence will only increase the cycle of violence.
Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into account.
Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.