Quotes About Nonviolence

I'm sort of a hippie pacifist in terms of general persona.

TSHEMBE Maybe that's what's botched up all the revolutions so far! (Erupting in spite of himself) Mr. Morris, your concern for nonviolence is a little late, don't you think? Where were you when we protested without violence and against violence? We did not hear from you then! Where were you when they were chopping off the right hands of our young men by the hundreds—by the tribe?

There are many ways of fighting. Many a man or woman has waged a good war for truth, honor, and freedom, who did not shed blood in the process. Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is the violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.

If his medium had been words instead of war, he would have been a poet.

Blessed Stars, please make this world into a place where we will never again be forced to kill an enemy whom we cannot hate. Were such a thing to come about, I would not complain even if my body were torn to pieces again and again.

Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: "Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.

We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.

Violence doesn't equal strength.

The warrior who's strength is not to fight.

Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.

Pacifists should stress more and more that it is the rule of law for which they are fighting.

The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.

No violence; violence is the proof of weakness.

People who think nonviolence is easy don't realize that it's a spiritual discipline that requires a great deal of strength, growth, and purging of the self so that one can overcome almost any obstacle for the good of all without being concerned about one's own welfare.

What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?

I despise violence. It is the last tool of feeble minds.

I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.

I think if we can be totally nonviolent within our own self, because we are part of the web of life, we will restore cosmic harmony.

Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.