Krishnamurti

What will free you from the fact of violence? Not the idea of non-violence but the fact of violence – knowing the fact of what is, not the idea of what it should not be. We have tried that, preached endlessly about non-violence; every religion talks of non-violence: ‘Be kind, be gentle, don’t hurt, love another.’ But religions haven’t produced peace; on the contrary, they have had religious wars. What can bring about an end to violence is looking at it, facing what is. From Public Talk 5, Saanen, 19 July 1966

Krishnamurti