Nonviolence Quotes
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Nonviolence Quotes & Sayings
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Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Veganism is about nonviolence: nonviolence to other sentient beings;
nonviolence to yourself;
nonviolence to the earth. — Gary L. Francione
Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We need now to build a culture of geniune nonviolence and real democracy.
— Mairead Corrigan
Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.
— Herbert Marcuse
Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.
— Mahatma Gandhi
For peace, let us teach the humanity, tolerance and nonviolence.
— Debasish Mridha
Nonviolence is the very essence of the gospels.
— Helene Iswolsky
Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive
— Martin Luther King Jr.
If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.
— Mahatma Gandhi
What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is something very powerful, and the power behind it is not weapons, but the support of the people.
— Arun Manilal Gandhi
Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The time had come- indeed it was past due- when I had to disavow and dissociate myself from those who in the name of peace burn, maim, and kill.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
That's all nonviolence is - organized love.
— Joan Baez
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.
— Mahatma Gandhi
All sentient beings should have at least one right - the right not to be treated as property
— Gary L. Francione
Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each
— Mahatma Gandhi
I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.
— Malala Yousafzai
If peace is what every government says it seeks, and peace is the yearning of every heart, why aren't we studying it and teaching it in schools?
— Colman McCarthy
The real challenge of compassion, nonviolence and mindfulness is to love in adverse situation.
— Amit Ray
God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.
— Marianne Williamson
There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I have no weapon but nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Love is an energy that is addictive, contagious and free. Earn it, chase it, give it to those in need.
— Aaron Lauritsen
Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Veganism is not a limitation in any way; it's an expansion of your love, your commitment to nonviolence, and your belief in justice for all.
— Gary L. Francione
In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Her stillness defeated his storm.
— Chris Gardner
The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We can't win the world with weapons or violence.We can win the world with love and practice of nonviolence. — Debasish Mridha
When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.
— Mahatma Gandhi
In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.
— Vinoba Bhave
My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
This is the unusual thing about nonviolence nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory. — Martin Luther King Jr.
Peace equals ability to handle conflict, with empathy, nonviolence, and creativity ...
— Johan Galtung
Nonviolence aims at doing no harm to living being. Compassion aims at doing good to all being.
— Amit Ray
The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.
— Mahatma Gandhi
All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.
— Mahatma Gandhi
To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Before we apply Joshua to our lives, we need to make sure which side of the Jordan we are living on. Militarism invites God's wrath.
— Preston Sprinkle
Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.
— Mahatma Gandhi