Quotes About Nonviolence

I do not condone violence on any level.

I don't condone violence, period.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

I will repeat again that females are the symbols of nonviolence. Another thing I would say is that a female is more compromising. A female can talk with anyone easily.

King-ian nonviolence is a way of thinking and living and is not confined to the work of social and systemic change.

I wouldn't use physical violence even if I could, because one of my romantic ideas is that physical violence is beneath the dignity of a man, and that whatever you get by physical aggression costs more than it is worth.

While rejecting the apocalyptic militancy that called for literal holy war against Rome, John's message is not, 'Do not resist!' It is, 'Resist! – but by witness and martyrdom, not by violence.

Je ne fais aucun mal en restant ici. I do no harm by remaining here.

people are more likely to refrain from violence out of preference for a nonviolent existence than they are to do so out of fear of punishment.

I have often wondered why people never want to put a stone monument of the Eight Beatitudes on a courthouse lawn. Then I realize that the Eight Beatitudes of Jesus would probably not be very good for any war, any macho worldview, the wealthy, or our consumer economy.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. There is no path toward love except by practicing love. War will always produce more war. Violence can never bring about true peace.

We have been shown how to fight hate without becoming hate ourselves. We have been given a Companion and a Friend and not just a good idea. We have been given joy in the midst of failure, and not just a way of winning or being right.

God is the ultimate nonviolent one, so we dare not accept any theory of salvation that is based on violence, exclusion, social pressure, or moral coercion. When we do, these are legitimated as a proper way of life. God saves by loving and including, not by excluding or punishing.

God is the ultimate nonviolent one, so we dare not accept any theory of salvation that is based on violence, exclusion, social pressure, or moral coercion.

La resistencia pacífica es nuestra única esperanza.

Power to the peaceful!

No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.

Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.

I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.

Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.

Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.

Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.

Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer.

My greatest weapon is mute prayer.