Quotes About Nonviolence

Ich wäre gerne auch weise In den alten Büchern steht, was weise ist: Sich aus dem Streit der Welt halten und die kurze Zeit Ohne Furcht verbringen Auch ohne Gewalt auskommen Böses mit Gutem vergelten Seine Wünsche nicht erfüllen, sondern vergessen Gilt für weise. Alles das kann ich nicht.

Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword.

While no Muslim worthy of his name would lose his respect for God, the Prophet Muhammad, and other symbols of Islam, he might well refrain from using legal prosecution or violent reaction to those who do not show the same respect. My basis for this claim is nothing other than the holiest source of Islam, the Quran.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military option, either for us or for them, and I'm certainly the only well-known Arab who writes these things - and who writes exactly the same things in the Arab press that I say here.

This same strain of transcendent "love-your-enemies" thinking guided Young, Abernathy, and the others as they began to contemplate their leader's death. As Young put it, "We aren't so much concerned with who killed Martin, as with what killed him." It

My own hope is that, as a human species, we are on a long journey of evolution toward increasingly more tolerant and nonviolent behavior.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

My passion stems from seeking world peace and finding how we can live together creatively rather than violently.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.

I wouldn't shoot anyone in real life, because even after all of this training, I'm still totally for peace and happiness and rainbows and sushi.

Picture the world with no bombs and guns.

Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.

Nonviolence is the answer for the questions of our time. Love will conquer evil every time.

Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.

War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.

Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love.

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate.

Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.

Won without a drop of bloodshed. His mother had been right. That truly was the best victory.

Healthy families resolve conflict without coercion, shaming, or violence.