Nonviolence Quotes
-
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
-
Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
-
It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.
-
The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.
-
Non-violence is the article of faith.
-
The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
-
For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.
-
Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.
-
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.
-
For mass struggles, nonviolence is essential.
-
The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
-
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.
-
Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.
-
For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.
-
Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.
-
My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.
-
For [Martin Luther] King nonviolence was more than a strategy; it was the way of life defined by love for others—the only way to heal broken humanity.
-
The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation.
-
It's very easy for one talking about violence and hatred for the white man to appeal to [Negro from ghetto]. I have never thought of this, but I think this is quite true, that if, even if you talk to them about nonviolence from a tactical point of view, they can't quite see it because they don't even know they're outnumbered.
-
In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of East and West, white and colored, individuals and collectivists; in a world whose cultural and spiritual power lags so far behind her technological capabilities that we live each day on the verge of nuclear co-annihilation; in this world, nonviolence is no longer an option for intellectual analysis, it is an imperative for action.
-
The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence.
-
As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this is a false issue, for the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.
-
Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is.
-
There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.