Quotes About Nonviolence

Force is not a remedy.

The critique of the domesticated Jesus has a long pedigree, perhaps the most notable being Dostoyevsky's chilling account of Jesus having the audacity to show up and disturb the machinations of the crusades in Seville (which, in fact, Jesus doesn't disturb at all precisely because his nonviolence can be so easily silenced).

Catastrophic climate change is the natural consequence of global systemic violence. That means, it is intimately connected with racism, sexism, classism, militarism, war, nuclear weapons, and every form of violence. If we want to deepen our nonviolence and our conscious oneness with the earth, we have to connect the various facets of systemic violence with environmental destruction so we know what we are up against, what we are resisting, and how broad out creative nonviolence needs to go.

For Jesus, we are merely stewards of Mother Earth, nonviolent people living in and tending the Creator's glorious vineyard. We are not to destroy it or one another, but live and work in peace in this glorious creation. it's time we learn the lesson, Jesus tells us, and do our part to car for the vineyard of creation.

Everyone is called to live their lives right now in the kingdom of God, to practice now as if they were already in the fullness of the presence of the God of peace. As we do, we will reject every form of violence, from war and executions to racism and sexism to nuclear weapons and corporate greed to destructive behavior to the creatures and Mother Earth.

he converted not from Judaism to Christianity, of course, but from violent opponent and persecutor of pagan inclusion to nonviolent proponent and persuader of pagan inclusion. That which he persecuted for God was exactly that to which he was called by God.

Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.

A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.

When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice.

Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.

The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That is why I don't eat flesh. I see no need for killing.

I have no wish to take life, not even human life

The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.

What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? / Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.

So when you see Captain Picard or Commander Sisko decide that logic, reason, and communication are the way to solve problems and not turn to violence, then we were telling something to our audience that needs to be said on a regular basis.

Never try to darken the sun with weapons, guns, bombs, and whatever ways; enjoy the sunshine with universal communities accordingly as natural rights, mutual respect, and global harmony since it is life.