Quotes About A Nonviolent World

#1. The voice of women has a special role and a special soul force in the struggle for a nonviolent world.

Betty Williams

#2. Be the change you wish to see in the world," said Gandhi. If you want a nonviolent world, you cannot use violence to achieve it. He also said, "In the end the British will walk out because 100,000 British cannot control 350 million Indians if those Indians refuse to cooperate.

Russell Brand

#3. The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.

N. T. Wright

#4. I love my fans. They're the most beautiful thing in the entire world for me. Every single thing I do is for them.

Selena Gomez

#5. Republicans have pounced. They're outraged. They say, 'How dare you lie about caring for the people who got hurt in the war we lied them into?'

Bill Maher

#6. Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?

Julianna Baggott

#7. Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. The universe is founded in consciousness and guided by it. The final reality is Universal Consciousness. The Supreme Consciousness is Omnipresent. Its evolutionary powers pervade the entire Universe. All processes of Nature are governed by the laws of this Absolute Force.

Shriram Sharma

#9. Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of what it means to be a disciple to Jesus.

Stanley Hauerwas

#10. Nonviolent Communication is a powerful tool for peace and partnership. It shows us how to listen empathically and also communicate our authentic feelings and needs. Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.

Riane Eisler

#11. I did start wrestling after I moved to Iowa, I think in the seventh grade. It's really a part of the Iowa culture so it's hard not to do it if you like sports.

Robbie Lawler

#12. My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.

Groucho Marx

#13. The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth.

Austin O'Malley

#14. In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other's blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven's love.

Aberjhani

#15. To obtain and possess the kingdoms of the world, with their power and glory, by violent injustice is to worship Satan. To obtain and possess the kingdom, the power, and the glory by nonviolent justice is to worship God.

John Dominic Crossan

#16. An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.

Benjamin Crump

#17. The nonviolent rhythms of the cross meet the melodies of this world with dissonance. I

Preston Sprinkle

#18. We have an historic opportunity for a great global healing and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent activism with faith, courage, and determination, we can bring this great vision of a world united in peace and harmony from a distant ideal into glowing reality.

Coretta Scott King

#19. To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#20. I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.

Dolores Huerta

#21. Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. Bottom line is that there's bad people everywhere. And every now and again, we are going to have to step to them to make sure that we preserve our way of life.

Marcus Luttrell

#23. Jesus is the politics of the new age; He is about the establishment of a kingdom; He is the one who has created a new time that gives us the time not only to care for the poor but to be poor. Jesus is the one who makes it possible to be nonviolent in a violent world.

Stanley Hauerwas

#24. Throughout the 64-day campaign, events and activities for peace and nonviolence take place all around the world, highlighting existing peacebuilding initiatives and inspiring new year-round activities for a more peaceful, nonviolent, just and sustainable world.

Robert Alan Aurthur

#25. When leaders acquire the skills that enable them to release the productive potential and tap the collective capabilities of the group, who knows what positive results will be achieved? Some of them may move mountains.

Thomas Gordon

#26. For the nonviolent person, the whole world is one family. He will fear none, nor will others fear him.

Mahatma Gandhi

#27. A good friend is one of the hardest things to keep in this life. Don't forget that sometimes you have to work at it.

Suzanne LaFleur

#28. Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity.

Dimitris Mitropoulos

#29. History of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#30. Worldly life (sansar) means to get tired and to rest.

Dada Bhagwan