Top 100 Quotes About Nonviolence
#1. Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you and, if you can, about transforming individuals so that they love unconditionally.
Coretta Scott King
#2. [Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#3. I must warn you against the impression that mine is the final word on nonviolence. All I claim is that every experiment of mine has deepened my faith in nonviolence as the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
Mark Shepard
#4. A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#5. If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
Mahatma Gandhi
#6. Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.
Mahatma Gandhi
#7. The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.
Joan Baez
#8. The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#9. Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.
Mahatma Gandhi
#11. Even creative nonviolence can go unnoticed unless participants are attacked.
Mark Kurlansky
#12. The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.
Mahatma Gandhi
#14. I might be ready to embrace a snake, but, if one comes to bite you, I should kill it and protect you.
Mahatma Gandhi
#15. My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.
Dalai Lama
#17. They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.
Howard Zinn
#18. Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak ... Non-violence is hard work.
Cesar Chavez
#19. The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#20. 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.
#21. Non Violence and Religion:
Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#22. All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.
Mahatma Gandhi
#23. I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.
Mahatma Gandhi
#26. Nonviolence aims at doing no harm to living being. Compassion aims at doing good to all being.
Amit Ray
#27. 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
#28. Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.
Mahatma Gandhi
#30. 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.
#32. The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#33. The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.
Mahatma Gandhi
#34. When I was 16, the guest speaker was King. And I was completely overwhelmed because I had been studying nonviolence, talking about it, reading about it, but here it was happening, here it was people boycotting the buses and people on the streets and taking risks, which I think was the key.
Joan Baez
#35. All sentient beings should have at least one right - the right not to be treated as property
Gary L. Francione
#37. Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.
Mahatma Gandhi
#38. Whatever measure of influence I had as a result of the importance which the world attaches to the Nobel Peace Prize would have to be used to bring the philosophy of nonviolence to all the world's people who grapple with the age-old problem of racial injustice.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#39. The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.
Mahatma Gandhi
#40. Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable
Gary L. Francione
#41. Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#42. The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#43. Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.
Mahatma Gandhi
#44. There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#45. Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger ... Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.
Mahatma Gandhi
#46. The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#47. Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.
Cesar Chavez
#48. Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
#49. This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.
Malala Yousafzai
#50. 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
#51. The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.
Mahatma Gandhi
#52. The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.
Mahatma Gandhi
#53. The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.
Mahatma Gandhi
#54. 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
#55. A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#56. You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#57. I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#58. I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of all humanity - that we neeed to renew this ancient wisdom of nonviolence, to strive for a disarmed world, and to create a culture of nonviolence.
Mairead Corrigan
#59. That's all nonviolence is - organized love.
Joan Baez
#60. Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.
Julia Bacha
#61. Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
Malcolm X
#62. Creativity and intelligence, rather than violence, are the best problem solvers.
Don Roff
#63. Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.
Mahatma Gandhi
#64. I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the world.
Joan Baez
#65. If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.
Mahatma Gandhi
#66. The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.
Mahatma Gandhi
#68. I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do.
Malcolm X
#69. I argue that even as the war is framed in certain ways to control and heighten affect in relation to the differential grievability of lives, so war has come to frame ways of thinking multiculturalism and debates on sexual freedom, issues largely considered separate from foreign affairs.
Judith Butler
#70. The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.
Mahatma Gandhi
#71. Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#72. No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#73. I will not be violent," I chant-mutter. "I will not be violent. I am peaceful and good. I do not want to give anyone the finger.
Carrie Jones
#74. Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.
Mahatma Gandhi
#75. There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
Cesar Chavez
#76. A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.
Mahatma Gandhi
#77. Say what you want but you NEVER say it with violence!
Gerard Way
#78. To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.
Mahatma Gandhi
#79. Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
#80. Love is an energy that is addictive, contagious and free. Earn it, chase it, give it to those in need.
Aaron Lauritsen
#81. Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.
Mahatma Gandhi
#82. Meditation is not thinking about the image of a person of the past. It is more about focusing and channelizing the power of your emotions and imagination for fulfilling a bigger dream - the dream that will bring more life, energy peace, happiness and meaning to you and the society.
Amit Ray
#83. Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.
Mahatma Gandhi
#84. The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#85. Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.
Mahatma Gandhi
#86. There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed fourteen hundred years ago by the Prophet all the time he was in Mecca.
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
#87. 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
#88. It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.
Bernhard Haring
#89. A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.
Mahatma Gandhi
#90. The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.
Joan Baez
#91. Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.
Mahatma Gandhi
#92. There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#93. In the village, a sage should go about
Like a bee, which, not harming
Flower, colour or scent,
Flies off with the nectar.
Anonymous
#94. Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence.
Amit Ray
#95. Part of the reason I embrace nonviolence is that it's the most effective thing we can do. It's a more advanced tactic than violence. If people who engage in violence want to escalate their tactics, they would escalate to nonviolence.
Tim DeChristopher
#96. I believe in nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living.
John Lewis
#97. The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a certain type of Christian thought has seriously impaired this capacity, which nonviolence must recover.
Thomas Merton
#98. Truth is my God. I can only search Him through nonviolence and in on other way.
Mahatma Gandhi
#99. And they are torturing Muslims, and their drones are bombing wedding parties (by accident!), and the Dreamers are quoting Martin Luther King and exulting nonviolence for the weak and the biggest guns for the strong.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#100. Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies ... for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just
and God is with us.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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