“War and crime never pay. The billions of dollars that went up in the smoke of explosive nothingness would have been sufficient to have made a new world, one almost free from disease and completely free from poverty. Not an earth of fear, chaos, famine, pestilence, the danse macabre, but one broad land of peace, prosperity, and widening knowledge.
The nonviolent voice of Gandhi appeals to man's highest conscience. Let nations Ally themselves no longer with death, but with life; not with destruction, but with construction; not with hate, but with the creative miracles of love.
…”I would wait, if need be for ages,” Gandhi says, “rather than seek the freedom of my country through bloody means.””
Paramahansa Yogananda - Autobiography of a Yogi
Interesting fact: on a Ted talk I heard recently that non employment in Thailand (!!) is standing on less than 1%.
