Vinoba Bhave - Quotes

Quotes

• "All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts."
• "Peace is something mental and spiritual. If there be peace in our (personal) life, it will affect the whole world"
• "Jai Jagat! — Victory to the world!"
• "It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor rich, and those of the rich poor."
• "What we should aim at is the creation of people power, which is opposed to the power of violence and is different from the coercive power of state."
• "A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior."
• "We cannot fight new wars with old weapons."
• "When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it."
• "There is no need for me to protest against the government’s faults, it is against its good deeds that my protests are needed."
• "Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power."
• "I beg you not to adopt any "go slow" methods of nonviolence. In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor. A merely soft, spineless ineffective kind of nonviolence will actually encourage the growth of the status quo and all the forces of a violent system which we deplore."