It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say:
"Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
But they shall all sit under their own vines and under their own fig trees, and no one shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken.
For all the peoples walk, each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
-- from Isaiah and Micah

"Both violence and non-violence must require suffering. Violence has a very simple dynamic. I make you suffer more than I suffer. I make you suffer until you cry uncle. And you surrender. That's what a war is, it's violence. So, suffering is there. Along with the word of suffering, soldiers must be willing to make ultimate sacrifices. The difference with non-violence is that in a non-violent movement, we make every effort not to impose suffering on the opponent. We don't want to beat the opponent up. We don't think that does any good. Instead, we absorb the suffering that the opponent is ready to throw at us and give us. So, as Martin King said, we will absorb suffering in our very own bodies. Of course, that's good Gandhian principle. That's also a principle of the Christian faith, though the Christian faith doesn't accept it; namely, that Jesus absorbed in the cross the suffering of the world. I mean, it's a time honored Christian dogma. Instead of putting it out, he took it in. And in taking it in forgave it and overcame it. That's one of the similarities of violence and non-violence, sacrifice and suffering are words, that in both cases that have to be used, but they have a different meaning."
-- James Lawson

"We have built a society which is violent and we, as human beings, are violent; the environment, the culture in which we live, is the product of our endeavour, of our struggle, of our pain, of our appalling brutalities. So the most important question is: is it possible to end this tremendous violence in oneself? That is really the question."
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti

"For me as an individual to be free, I have to confront myself with questions about who I really am, and this is done in large part by examining the layers of false identity that I mistakenly call me."
-- Deepak Chopra