Nonviolence Quotes

• 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.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Conduct
  • Cowardice
  • Suffers

• What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Spirit
  • Nonviolence
  • Fulfillment

• My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nonviolence
  • Creed
  • Active Force

• Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Community
  • Nonviolence
  • In oder

• My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nonviolence
  • My Love
  • Mundane

• God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• 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
  • Ethics
  • Leads
  • Nonviolence

• Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Weapon
  • Nonviolence
  • Cowardice

• There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Hope
  • Nonviolence
  • Narrow

• Building cultures of peace is long-haul work, undramatic and unheralded, and often infinitely tedious, and most of the people doing it probably don't even think of themselves as practitioners of nonviolence. Maybe it's time they did.

  

  Carol Lee Flinders
  • People
  • Culture
  • Building

• The other was that all the major civil rights organizations, new as well as old, were committed to the philosophy of non-violence, the doctrine preached by the most conspicuous leader in the Negro movement, Martin Luther King. ‘We will soon wear you down by our capacity to suffer,’ he told the whites, ‘and in winning our freedom we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.

  

  C. Vann Woodward
  • Philosophy
  • Civil Rights
  • Organizations

• Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.

  

  Nathaniel Altman
  • War
  • Nonviolence
  • Abstention

• Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Understood
  • Nonviolence
  • Active Force

• Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Nonviolence
  • Negative Word

• If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Women
  • Law
  • Nonviolence

• Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Time
  • Love
  • Oppression

• This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Victory
  • Nonviolence
  • Defeated

• As far as nonviolence and Spiritual Activism, Marshall Rosenberg is it! Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, is essential reading for anyone who wants to improve their communication skills. Applying the concepts within the book will help guide the reader towards a more loving, compassionate, and nonviolent way of understanding and functioning with others, and foster more compassion in the world. I highly recommend this book.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • World
  • Book

• In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of nonviolence and the Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach will bring about a solution to the race problem in America. His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to violence.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • Problem
  • Weapon

• In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.

  

  Vinoba Bhave
  • Nonviolence
  • Steam
  • Vigor

• Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Questions
  • Answer
  • Nonviolence

• Resistance and nonviolence are not in themselves good. There is another element that must be present in our struggle that then makes our resistance and nonviolence truly meaningful. That element is reconciliation. Our ultimate end must be the creation of the beloved community

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Creation
  • Resistance
  • Nonviolence

• So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Nonviolence
  • Monk

• I have no weapon but nonviolence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Weapon
  • Nonviolence

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