Quotes About Nonviolence

It is here that we see a Jesus who abhors both passivity and violence, who carves out a third way that is neither submission nor assault, neither fight nor flight. It is this third way, Wink writes, that teaches that "evil can be opposed without being mirrored . . . oppressors can be resisted without being emulated . . . enemies can be neutralized without being destroyed."7

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination. Has

Andre Trocmé, who pastored the remarkable Le Chambon community during World War II, said, "Nonviolence was not a theory superimposed upon reality; it was an itinerary that we explored day after day in communal prayer and in obedience to the commands of the Spirit.

There are some things to die for but none to kill for.

I believe that there should be a way of archieving peace other than fighting. Jacen

A cuántos malos tendría que matar? Su número, como el espacio, infinito. Pero si mato el espíritu del odio, todos mis enemigos perecen al mismo tiempo.

Harmlessness is the only religion. Jain maxim

Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

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

not just Dr. King but John Lewis and Bob Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer and Diane Nash. In their heroic efforts—going door-to-door to register voters, sitting down at lunch counters, and marching to freedom songs—I saw the possibility of practicing the values my mother had taught me; how you could build power not by putting others down but by lifting them up.

He spoke for an hour on the nonviolent road to independence. The crowd loved it so much they rioted and killed twelve people.

King immediately appreciated that Gandhi's theory of nonviolent resistance was not a moralistic affirmation of love, as nonviolence had been in the teachings of Jesus. Instead it was a set of hardheaded tactics to prevail over an adversary by outwitting him rather than trying to annihilate him.

I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed ? but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?

True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.

The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence: 'Do not harm others.'

asked Shoto about it, he told me it was a conscious choice by the game's creators, to promote pacifism and nonviolence. "Wow," Aech said. "A nonviolent game about killing people with knives. Genius.

An important purpose of the practice of nonviolence is to constantly debunk the myth that there's a way to make it through life without ever having to feel pain or discomfort.

Everywhere, across continents, Gandhiji is mentioned, cherished and remembered as an icon for all humanity. He is the embodiment of India.

I'd never hurt another person.

When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?

In India, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.