Quotes About Nonviolence

He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.

One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

A more peaceful world and a more peaceful century require that we rely not on weapons but on developing a widespread inner peace.

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.

Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.

Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.

Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor...

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

Anarchism's lone objective is to reach a point at which the belligerence of some humans against humanity, in whatever form, comes to a halt.

The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.

The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.

If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable.

I'm telling Palestinians don't use violence. We're going to use the civilized means of international law to achieve our goals, our independence, our freedom.

Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

Let them push you, but do not push; Let them crucify you, but do not crucify. Let them insult, but do not insult. Let them slander, but do not slander. Be meek, and do not be zealous in evil.

One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

Violence often brings about momentary results.