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“The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings

“In Vietnam, we staged nonviolent action and brought down a government—not with guns or bullets. We must rely on ourselves and organize ourselves so that we can perform the peace work of transformation and healing within our family, group, and community. Then such action can be taken. When the whole world focuses its attention on you, that action is very powerful. If Gandhi was able to succeed, you will also succeed.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Begins Here: Palestinians and Israelis Listening to Each Other

“If Gandhi preached simultaneously the virtues of nonviolence and courage, it was because he believed that nonviolence required more courage than violence.”
― Norman G. Finkelstein, What Gandhi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage

“In my experience, if I’m faced with a dangerous opponent who is threatening me, it makes sense to talk them down. I’ll offer him or her a deal. That’s far better than drawing a gun and shooting someone. Guns make negotiations impossible. Most people would rather talk than die.”
― Otho Eskin, Firetrap

“It defies belief that, if the groups targeted by Hitler for extermination had practiced noncoercive, nonviolent resistance, they could have quickened his conscience and melted his heart. The only Gandhian strategies possibly effective against a Hitler would be noncooperation on a mass scale, and mobilizing sympathetic public opinion through self suffering, in order, not to tug at his heartstrings, but to politically defeat him.”
― Norman G. Finkelstein, What Gandhi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage

“Nonviolence doesn't mean silence, nonviolence means action out of conscience.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace

“Peace doesn't mean lack of violence, but the presence of conscience to stand up to violence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace

“Any planet that confuses guns with gallantry is a planet of apes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın DoÄŸar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Military is legal terrorism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın DoÄŸar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Military is Legal Terrorism
(Ceasefire Sonnet)

Any planet that confuses guns
with gallantry is a planet of apes.
Prioritizing military over education,
we only build a world full of terrorists.

Military is just legal terrorism,
To fathom this you gotta be human.
What do monkeys know of peace and love,
When guns are their emblem of patriotism!

We don't need civilian disarmament,
We need absolute universal disarmament.
Only a worldwide ban on firearms production,
Can facilitate a paradigm of peaceful coexistence.

Let's see which nation has the heart and backbone,
To legislate absolute ban on firearms manufacture!
Let's see who are the first civilized people,
Let's see which nation is the first peacemaker!

What's the point of one ceasefire,
Let's pull the plug on all war.
Let's disband all military, and siphon
those funds to housing, education and healthcare.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın DoÄŸar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“What do monkeys know of peace and love, when guns are their emblem of patriotism!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın DoÄŸar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“We don't need civilian disarmament,
We need absolute universal disarmament.
Only a worldwide ban on firearms production,
Can facilitate a paradigm of peaceful coexistence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın DoÄŸar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Let's disband all military, and siphon those funds to housing, education and healthcare.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın DoÄŸar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“I choose peace, not because I don't know violence -
I choose peace, because I know too much violence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın DoÄŸar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Guns Are Viagra (Sonnet 1262)

Indifference does more damage than inhumanity,
For animals can't be expected to be human.
Humans are human when they are accountable,
Passive spectators are worse than inhuman.

Silence of the peacelovers is more damaging
than violence of the warmongers.
Till the very thought of guns makes you sick,
you are only playing make believe peacekeepers.

Guns are just viagra for the impotent,
Bullets are but crutches for centipedes.
When there's no substance in mind and spine,
Monkeys tend to cower behind semiautomatics.

More backward a country,
more its fascination with guns and bombs.
That's why you cannot imagine a hero,
without a gun in their hands.

Real heroes don't carry guns,
Real heroes don't wear capes.
Wearing a smile, carrying a spine,
Real heroes work to rescue peace,
from the clutches of states.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın DoÄŸar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Guns are just viagra for the impotent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın DoÄŸar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“More backward a country, more its fascination with guns and bombs. That's why you cannot imagine a hero, without a gun in their hands.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın DoÄŸar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Ceasefire only postpones war, what’s needed is demilitarization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Christian non-violence does not encourage or excuse hatred of a special class, nation or social group. It is not merely anti-this or that. In other words, the Evangelical hate for realism which is demanded of the Christian should make it impossible for him to generalize about "the wicked" against whom he takes up moral arms in a struggle for righteous-ness. He will not let himself be persuaded that the adversary is totally wicked and can therefore never be reasonable or well-intentioned, and hence need never be listened to. This attitude, which defeats the very purpose of non-violence—openness, communication, dialogue—often accounts for the fact that some acts of civil disobedience merely antagonize the adversary without making him willing to communicate in any way whatever, except with bullets or missiles. Thomas à Becket, in Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral, debated with himself, fearing that he might be seeking Martyrdom merely in order to demonstrate his own righteousness and the King's injustice: "This is the treason, to do the right thing for the wrong reason.”
― Thomas Merton, Faith and Violence: Christian Teaching and Christian Practice

“How could we educate young people to respect life while ignoring the killing of human beings?”
― Chân Không, Learning True Love: Practicing Buddhism in a Time of War

“Love is travel,
Love is reform.
Peace is play,
When love reigns dawn.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“The love of God is non-coercive, non- manipulative, non-violent, and unconditional.”
― Joseph Haward, The Ghost of Perfection: Searching for Humanity

“Nonviolent resistance is not the simple acceptance of your lot, the belief that you should simply roll over and die; rather, it is the active pursuit of liberation, the belief that transformation is truly possible without violence.”
― Joseph Haward, Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“...we must seek other ways than violence to rid ourselves of monsters.”
― Joseph Haward, Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“Be a gentle giant like the elephant, not an opportunistic carnivore like the wolf. The elephant doesn't harm anyone to prove its greatness, while the wolf doesn't think twice to devour another wolf.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“My Struggle (Sonnet 1500)

My struggle is to build a world, where
gestapo, mi6, cia, raw, all are history;
where thieves aren't glorified as heroes,
invasion isn't sugarcoated as security;

military is found only in books of history,
where guns are displayed in museum as relics;
nukes are just defense against celestial threat,
where green sources power all things electric;

where it's illegal to amass limitless wealth -
food, housing, education, healthcare, are free;
where no one can be politician without license,
where citizens listen to experts, not celebrity.

My struggle is to build a world, where
human rights is a human issue, not legal one;
where equality is not a belief, but the norm -
where human is neither ape nor robot, but human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“When you raise terrorists, you are bound to have terrorism - most of which is democratically glorified as patriotism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“It's a tragic state of affairs, when we get used to the sight of blood. If the sight of blood makes you sick, it's good - it's a sign that your humanity isn't yet lost.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Åžiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“It's a sad state of affairs when you get used to the sight of blood, glorifying aggression as bravehearted. It's a sad state of affairs when you feel good dressing up for gala, while children are being bombed to death.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Visvavitamin (The Sonnet)

It's a sad state of affairs when
you get used to the sight of blood,
glorifying aggression as bravehearted.
It's a sad state of affairs when
you feel good dressing up for gala,
while children are being bombed to death.

Sometimes aggression may be our last resort,
but never normalize it as civilized way of life.
The beast in me knows well to crush bones,
but the reformer I am, works to preserve life.

It's a sad state of affairs when
prejudice is glorified as piety,
and curiosity is branded blasphemy,
when lies are honored as liberty,
and empathy is declared unholy.

Bandaid to the broken, backbone to the fallen.
Vital to world-light, we are Visvavitamin.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets