Quotes About Nonviolence

Gandhi, the champion of Indian freedom, is on one of his umpteenth hunger strikes.

The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love, of brotherhood, the violence that wills to beat weapons into sickles for work

If we truly loved ourselves, we'd never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.

If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.

God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office.

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated.

Nonviolence is not just a state of being where violence is absent or invisible. It is a conscious, active effort not to harm anyone morally, spiritually, physically, mentally, economically, socially, or in any other way.

The basis of Gandhi's nonviolence is to appeal to the good in others and evoke sympathy to one's cause through self-suffering.

Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe.

Respect for mother and father is good, generosity to friends, acquaintances, relatives, Brahmans and ascetics is good, not killing living beings is good, moderation in spending and moderation in saving is good. The Council shall notify the Yuktas about the observance of these instructions in these very words.

Beloved-of-the-Gods, King Piyadasi, has caused this Dhamma edict to be written. Here (in my domain) no living beings are to be slaughtered or offered in sacrifice. Formerly, in the kitchen of Beloved-of-the-Gods, King Piyadasi, hundreds of thousands of animals were killed every day to make curry. But now with the writing of this Dhamma edict only three creatures, two peacocks and a deer are killed, and the deer not always. And in time, not even these three creatures will be killed.

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

There is a biblical phrase "an eye for an eye," a philosophy of revenge, not justice. But Mahatma Ghandi warned that in a world ruled by an eye for an eye, soon the whole world will be blind.