Quotes About Nonviolence

It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

I've - all my life with Nicole [Brown], no matter what was going on, I handled it without being physical with her.

He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

Live your life in ways that do not support wars, whosoever are the victims.

Christ instructs us to love our enemies, which does not mean a submission to their hostile agendas or domination, but does mean treating them as human beings also created in the image of God and respecting their human rights as adversaries and even as prisoners.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Peace is better than war. There's too much glorification of war and not enough glorification of peace, and especially not enough glorification of the importance of the doves.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

One must admire the achievement of Padmasambhava and Shantarakshita and their disciples, for it must have been difficult to persuade the rough warrior population of Tibet that nonviolence is the way to live, that self-conquest is more important than military conquest, that enlightened humanity is more important than national gods, and that the purpose of life is evolutionary merit and transcendent wisdom, not power and pleasure.

How Leo Tolstoy had inspired Mahatma Gandhi, who had in turn inspired Martin Luther King, Jr. William

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You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

Protest is OK. But protests, according to my King family legacy, should be peaceful.

Filipinos should need no longer kill fellow Filipinos. With peace, real progress can touch all corners of the country.

I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere.

I'm not a fighter. I don't like to get beat up.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

I don't like fights. I don't like aggressive people.

I teach kids that want to be tough that their fists are not the way.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.