Non Violent Action Quotes

#1. And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.

Hannah Arendt

#2. The first principal of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.

Helen McCrory

#4. Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

Billie Jean King

#5. Anytime you have anyone who thinks he or she has God in their pocket, you have the potential for disaster, ... Throughout history, the claim that God is on your side has been used to justify any action, no matter how violent or destructive.

Charles Kimball

#6. When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action.

Caroline Lucas

#7. Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. The hollows are heavy and dank
With the steam of the Goldenrods.

Bayard Taylor

#9. NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#10. Until we meet again in the everlasting world of tomorrow's dream, where the power of love is untouchable and the pain of sacrifice is invaluable.

Ramona Matta

#11. That's disappointing," Nick said. "I was hoping to see you in action again. It's kind of sexy in a violent, perverted sort of way."
"Gosh, knowing that makes my day complete."
"I thought you'd want me to be open about my feelings now that we're married.

Janet Evanovich

#12. I got to sing solo in the junior choir when I was 10 or 11 and won a competition, and my sister's piano playing improved to a certain level. One time my sister and I worked together. The first song we ever sang in High School was Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett.

Gordon Lightfoot

#13. Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job.

Dennis Quaid

#14. Gen. Washington having recrossed the Schuylkill, determined, on the 16th of September, again to meet Gen. Howe in the field of battle. The arrangements were made and the advance parties had already commenced firing, when there came on a violent shower of rain, which unfitted both armies for action.

Benjamin Tallmadge

#15. Erotic fiction is written for a class.
To understand and enjoy it, either you should have the class or the classy open mind.

Himmilicious

#16. Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.

John Ruskin

#17. The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.

Robert A. Heinlein

#18. The most liberating feeling in the world is to not give the negative opinions of others any traction.

Carlos Wallace

#19. Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

Virginia Woolf

#20. If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

Indira Gandhi

#21. But also, the practical reality that in order for us to identify homegrown violent extremism and prevent it or root it out before it takes action, we are going to need the cooperation of Muslim communities in this country.

Marco Rubio

#22. The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

Hannah Arendt

#23. A hero doesn't seek death, but neither does a hero let the possibility of violent death deter resolute action toward the purpose at hand.

Tod Lindberg

#24. Violent action is unclear to most of those who get caught up in it. Experience is fragmentary; cause and effect,why and how, are torn apart. Only sequence exists. First this then that. And afterward, for those who survived, a lifetime of trying to understand

Salman Rushdie

#25. My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.

Micky Dolenz

#26. Millions of people have become refugees and beggars when violent extremists have overthrown governments. Should this happen in Saudi Arabia, the first action taken would be to behead or burn to death every Saudi royal.

Jean Sasson

#27. A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

Mahatma Gandhi

#28. The true terrorists of our world do not meet at the docks at midnight, or scream "Allahu Akbar" before some violent action. The true terrorists of our world wear 5000 dollar suits and work in the highest positions of finance, government and business.

Peter Joseph

#29. The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

Noam Chomsky

#30. To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.

Barbara Deming

#31. By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.

John Acton

#32. Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

Mahatma Gandhi

#33. You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.

David R. Ellis

#34. It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs ... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.

Pope Benedict XVI

#35. We have seen that, like the weather, religion "does lots of different things." To claim that it has a single, unchanging, and inherently violent essence is not accurate. Identical religious beliefs and practices have inspired diametrically opposed courses of action.

Karen Armstrong

#36. Well I'm sure now that the press is going to tell you (Mitt Romney) isn't perfect. Now my friends for the past four years, we've tried the one that the press thought was perfect and that hasn't worked out all that well for us.

Mike Huckabee

#37. Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.

Julian Assange