Quotes About Nonviolence

A leap of faith is required if we are to believe that nonviolence can heal a violent world, that turning the other cheek when struck, instead of striking back, can end a fight. We need faith to believe that by loving our enemy we can eventually transform him into an ally; that even when nonviolence fails to achieve peace, it can succeed in curing hate.**

There in the course of one hour, a little elderly woman who embodied the spirit of nonviolence single-handedly prevented loss of life, and a preppie young man with fast fists flying also prevented violence. I would not presume to judge who was doing the will of God on that snowy February afternoon.

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.

No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.

A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.

Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.

Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world.

On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 70th birthday. Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)

The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service.

The timid may say, "What is the use? We shall be sent to prison." To them I would reply: Even if only two percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, as well as urge means other than war of settling international disputes, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail.

If people came at you and started to scratch you, then of course you had the right to sit on them. Even Nelson Mandela, she told herself, who was a good and gentle man, would have agreed with that.

Through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder," he said. "Through violence you may murder a liar but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that.

Being a pacifist to save your own life is normal, being a pacifist for the lives of others is true pacifism.

Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible.

Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.