Top 100 Quotes About Non Violence
#1. Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence. That's pretty obvious. You can't have non-violent resistance against the Nazis in a concentration camp, to take an extreme case ...
Noam Chomsky
#2. The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence.
Rajneesh
#3. When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4. 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
#5. You cannot find one single verse in the New Testament that calls for violence against non-believers. Jesus said to love your enemies. Muhammad said to butcher your enemies.
Robert Jeffress
#7. It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.
Mahatma Gandhi
#8. Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.
Dalai Lama
#9. and because total non-communication in a place like the Circle was so difficult, it felt like violence.
Dave Eggers
#10. When I feel angry, I want to say something mean, or yell, or hit. But feeling like I want to is not the same as doing it. Feeling can't hurt anyone or get me into trouble, but doing can. (Bunny from picture book)
Cornelia Maude Spelman
#11. Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak ... Non-violence is hard work.
Cesar Chavez
#12. I believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.
Albert Einstein
#13. The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot his opponent, but he refuses to hate him. And he stands with understanding, goodwill at all times.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#14. 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
#15. Non Violence and Religion:
Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#16. Nonviolence aims at doing no harm to living being. Compassion aims at doing good to all being.
Amit Ray
#17. Together we can decrease the level of violence, raise awareness of our activities and save lives around the world. The impact of a day of global ceasefire and non-violence cannot be underestimated.
Jeremy Gilley
#18. Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.
Clarence Darrow
#19. Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal.
Mahatma Gandhi
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.
Mahatma Gandhi
#23. Perhaps you couldn't help being angry... but you could certainly stop yourself from repaying one offense with another.
Gail Carson Levine
#24. Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are
Jonathon Porritt
#25. 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
#26. I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.
Mahatma Gandhi
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.
James Cromwell
#31. Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
Andrew Young
#32. My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.
Mahatma Gandhi
#33. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#34. To achieve peace, it is crucial to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy that prevents peace processes from advancing.
Widad Akreyi
#35. In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience.
Kwame
#36. In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means.
Cesar Chavez
#37. There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
Cesar Chavez
#38. The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other religions were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Oliver Stone
#39. 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
#40. The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
Gautama Buddha
#41. Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.
Mahatma Gandhi
#43. Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.
Mahatma Gandhi
#44. If you pursue meditation with a non-competitive attitude, with a hopeful and helpful attitude, without violence, then you will find that you will become a very benign and powerful being, one who is at peace with himself and the universe.
Frederick Lenz
#45. Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Mahatma Gandhi
#46. If peace activists really want to make changes, they have to start putting intense pressure on their elected officials. Of course, everything should be non-violent, because we are trying to create a peaceful world, and violence can't produce peace - no matter what George W. Bush and his buddies say.
Cindy Sheehan
#47. Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
Albert Camus
#48. Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.
Mahatma Gandhi
#49. Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love ...
Mahatma Gandhi
#50. Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi
#51. I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.
Mamata Banerjee
#52. The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.
Mahatma Gandhi
#53. Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.
Leo Tolstoy
#54. Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent
Betty Williams
#55. Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization.
Cesar Chavez
#56. Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?
Arundhati Roy
#57. The values a man must cherish as his life-breath are: Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non violence.
Sathya Sai Baba
#58. If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.
Mahatma Gandhi
#59. In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.
Mahatma Gandhi
#61. My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
Mahatma Gandhi
#62. The essence of God is consciousness. Consciousness can be used for either violence or peace; the choice is ours. When it is expanded, human consciousness chooses non-violence, since that is compatible with love.
Deepak Chopra
#63. The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped out. p. 22
Thomas Merton
#64. Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.
Cesar Chavez
#65. The horror of Gandhi's murder lies not in the political motives behind it or in its consequences for Indian policy or for the future of non-violence; the horror lies simply in the fact that any man could look into the face of this extraordinary person and deliberately pull a trigger.
Mary McCarthy
#66. If you want to be a civilised man, first you have to be a non-violent man! If you want to be a civilised country, first you have to be a non-violent country! Violence is the means of the sick minds; peacefulness is the means of the healthy minds!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#67. I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute ...
Dalai Lama
#68. Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
Malcolm X
#69. Don't forget the real business of the war is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals.
Thomas Pynchon
#70. Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.
Parwez Musharraf
#71. Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in the smoke of confabulation. There can be no peace on earth without the kind of inner change that brings man back to his "right mind." p. 31
Thomas Merton
#72. War traumatizes soldier and civilian alike; warfare is a profit-making racket; warfare resolves nothing that negotiations can't resolve better; the weapons we have now make non-violence the only option to planetary annihilation.
Madeline Taylor
#73. 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
#74. The ultimate potent weapon - "Non Violence"!!!
Mukesh Kwatra
#75. The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we must approach Him with a humble and contrite heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
#76. Nonviolence is a way of life, where the task is to awaken the underlying goodness of every human being.
Amit Ray
#77. If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.
Pawan Kalyan
#78. Old habits 'DIE' hard, they have to be 'KILLED'!
Yes...for once I would propogate some violence in dealing with habits that do not serve us...'Cold blooded murder of non serving habits' , 'merciless elimination of non serving habits'.. Substitute with newer,more powerful habits !!!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#79. Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
Al Sharpton
#80. We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause ... If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence. Then you are no longer a master of your own struggle.
Cesar Chavez
#81. Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.
Herbert Read
#82. Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.
H.G.Wells
#83. If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.
Mahatma Gandhi
#84. Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
Mahatma Gandhi
#85. One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
Jack Canfield
#86. There are two principles between which there can be no compromise - liberty and coercion.
Frederic Bastiat
#87. 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
#88. There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.
Nelson Mandela
#89. Sword and fist are the instruments of primitive; non-violence is the instrument of developed man!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#90. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld ... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust ...
Mahatma Gandhi
#91. Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.
Amit Ray
#92. The sincere effort to accept and promote the human values - Truth, Right Conduct, Peace, Non-Violence and Love. These five values are a essential for a full and worthwhile life as the five vital airs or pranas mentioned in the scriptures.
Sathya Sai Baba
#93. Whoever tries to understand the Human Values of Truth, Righteous conduct, Peace, Love and Non-violence properly, who practises these values and propagates them with zeal and sincerity can alone be described as a truly educated person.
Sathya Sai Baba
#94. We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.
Joan Baez
#96. You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing.
Paul Watson
#97. I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.
Dalai Lama
#98. The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent non aggressiveness.
Laozi
#99. I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.
Mahatma Gandhi
#100. I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.
Bob Brown
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