Lanza del Vasto Quotes

• The most efficient action, the most significant testimony to nonviolence, is living a life in which there is no violence-showing that such a life is possible, and even not more difficult than a life of gain, nor more unpleasant than a life of pleasure, nor less natural than an 'ordinary' life.

  Lanza del Vasto

  Peace, Ordinary, Gains

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• A peacemaker does not mean a peaceful person.

  Lanza del Vasto

  Peace, Mean, Doe

  Joseph Jean Lanza del Vasto (1974). “Make straight the way of the Lord: an anthology of the philosophical writings of Lanza del Vasto”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You want a better, more fraternal, more just world? Well then, start building it: Who is stopping you? Build it inside yourself and around you, build it with those who want it. Build it small, and it will grow.

  Lanza del Vasto

  Stopping, World, Want

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• Find the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands, and the mouth.

  Lanza del Vasto

  Peace, Hands, Mouths

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• In the practice of any craft, we are less concerned with the quantity of the product than with its quality, and less concerned with the product than with the artisan.

  Lanza del Vasto

  Peace, Practice, Quality

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• Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members work upon themselves and come to conversion.

  Lanza del Vasto

  Peace, Ubuntu, Community

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• The machine enslaves, the hand sets free.

  Lanza del Vasto

  Peace, Hands, Machines

  Joseph Jean Lanza del Vasto (1974). “Make straight the way of the Lord: an anthology of the philosophical writings of Lanza del Vasto”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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