Non Violence Quotes
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Non Violence Quotes & Sayings
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The first principal of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace.
— Widad Akreyi
The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Love as Thought is Truth.Love as Action is Right Conduct.
Love as Understanding is Peace.
Love as Feeling is Non-violence. — Sathya Sai Baba
Bullys are the small group who should perish not by voilence, but by non violence, words not fists, thats the awnser to our problem.
— Timothy Long
Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors. — Darnell Lamont Walker
I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
— Andrew Young
If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The ultimate potent weapon - "Non Violence"!!!
— Mukesh Kwatra
Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children.
— Stefan Molyneux
As long as it is assumed that war is always an available option, we will not be forced to imagine any alternative to war.
— Stanley Hauerwas
My wife runs a non-profit that gives legal information online to victims of domestic violence.
— Marshall Curry
I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.
— Raj Thackeray
I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.
— Alexandra Paul
Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are
— Jonathon Porritt
To achieve peace, it is crucial to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy that prevents peace processes from advancing.
— Widad Akreyi
The era of revolution by military means produced a greater degree of desperation and frustration. This was brought to an end by the people.
— Nilantha Ilangamuwa
There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
— Cesar Chavez
Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization.
— Cesar Chavez
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
— Gautama Buddha
The values a man must cherish as his life-breath are: Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non violence.
— Sathya Sai Baba
Violence can only breed more violence and suffering. Our struggle must remain non-violent and free of hatred.
— Dalai Lama XIV
Gandhi Topi' is no longer an attire of the pacifist.
— Mukesh Kwatra
Live simply so others may simply live
— Mahatma Gandhi
The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.
— Bob Brown
He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.
— Cesar Chavez
Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.
— Pawan Kalyan
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence is more powerful than violence. Nature eliminates violent animals bit by bit.
— Amit Ray
Perhaps you couldn't help being angry... but you could certainly stop yourself from repaying one offense with another.
— Gail Carson Levine
Violence is the power of the state; imagination and non-violence the power of civil society.
— Rebecca Solnit
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak ... Non-violence is hard work.
— Cesar Chavez
When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.
— Parwez Musharraf
Non-violence is the article of faith.
— Mahatma Gandhi
That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to a low-degree creature!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Nonviolence aims at doing no harm to living being. Compassion aims at doing good to all being.
— Amit Ray
Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent
— Betty Williams
and because total non-communication in a place like the Circle was so difficult, it felt like violence.
— Dave Eggers
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence is a good policy when conditions permit.
— Nelson Mandela
There are two principles between which there can be no compromise - liberty and coercion.
— Frederic Bastiat
Peace is a deeper reality than violence."p. 231 — Stanley Hauerwas
The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
— Thomas A. Edison
If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?
— Arundhati Roy
You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing.
— Paul Watson
Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear,violence and non-violence.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
I always say that non-violence is not the weapon of the weak. It is the weapon of the strong.
— Betty Williams
Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Sword and fist are the instruments of primitive; non-violence is the instrument of developed man!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it's highly unlikely we'll ever have peace.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
