Top 100 Quotes About Non Violence
#1. The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence.
Rajneesh
#2. When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak ... Non-violence is hard work.
Cesar Chavez
#7. 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
#8. Non Violence and Religion:
Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.
Mahatma Gandhi
#14. Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are
Jonathon Porritt
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
Andrew Young
#22. My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.
Mahatma Gandhi
#23. In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience.
Kwame
#24. In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means.
Cesar Chavez
#25. There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
Cesar Chavez
#26. The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
Gautama Buddha
#27. 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
#29. 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
#30. Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
Albert Camus
#32. Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.
Mahatma Gandhi
#33. 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
#34. Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent
Betty Williams
#38. Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization.
Cesar Chavez
#39. Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?
Arundhati Roy
#40. The values a man must cherish as his life-breath are: Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non violence.
Sathya Sai Baba
#41. 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
#42. 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
#44. My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
Mahatma Gandhi
#45. 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
#46. Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.
Cesar Chavez
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. The ultimate potent weapon - "Non Violence"!!!
Mukesh Kwatra
#52. 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
#53. If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.
Pawan Kalyan
#54. Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
Al Sharpton
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.
H.G.Wells
#58. If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.
Mahatma Gandhi
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. Sword and fist are the instruments of primitive; non-violence is the instrument of developed man!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#63. 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
#64. Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.
Amit Ray
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. Non-violence is a good policy when conditions permit.
Nelson Mandela
#71. 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
#72. I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It doesn't mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to act without violence, motivated by compassion, recognising the rights of others.
Dalai Lama XIV
#73. The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
Joan Baez
#74. Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best
Ela Bhatt
#75. Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#76. Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity ... If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior ... If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.
Mahatma Gandhi
#77. When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.
John Lewis
#78. 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
#79. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
Mahatma Gandhi
#80. I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#81. Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
Mahatma Gandhi
#82. 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
#83. Violence is the power of the state; imagination and non-violence the power of civil society.
Rebecca Solnit
#84. If somebody's in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out.
Ron Paul
#85. Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to do harm. As his war-strewn presidency shows, George Bush knows nothing about ahimsa and non-violence. Bush should reconsider this cynical, disrespectful display of symbolism.
Kevin Martin
#87. It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.
Christopher Hampton
#88. But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.
Nelson Mandela
#89. Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear,violence and non-violence.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#90. I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
Malcolm X
#91. Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#92. Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi
#94. I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#95. The establishment irritates you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight because once they've got you violent they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humour.
John Lennon
#96. Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
Mahatma Gandhi
#97. In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
Cesar Chavez
#98. An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents.
Mahatma Gandhi
#99. I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.
Alexandra Paul
#100. Let the Jews who claim to be the chosen race prove their title by choosing the way of non-violence for vindicating their position on earth. Every country is their home, including Palestine, not by aggression but by loving service
Mahatma Gandhi
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