Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• 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.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Christian, Spiritual, Country

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.94, Open Court Publishing

• Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Country

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.94, Open Court Publishing

• Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Struggle, Men, Order

  "Letters to the Schools, Volume I". Book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, p. 12, 1981.

• You say you love your wife. You depend on her; she has given you her body, her emotions, her encouragement, a certain feeling of security and well-being. Then she turns away from you; she gets bored or goes off with someone else, and your whole emotional balance is destroyed, and this disturbance, which you don't like, is called jealousy. There is pain in it, anxiety, hate and violence. So what you are really saying is, 'As long as you belong to me I love you but the moment you don't I begin to hate you.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Encouragement, Pain

• We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a world of make-belief, in a world of brutality,
  violence, despair, anxiety. To live humanly, sanely, one has to change.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Long, Anxiety, Despair

  "Talks in Europe 1968". Jiddu Krishnamurti's 5th public talk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (May 22, 1968) as quoted in "The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, Volume 15 (1964-1965): The Dignity of Living", book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1992.

• 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.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Country, Party, Men

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.94, Open Court Publishing

• Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Two, Violence, Conflict

  Jiddu Krishnamurti's 5th public talk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 30, 1967.

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