Quotes About Nonviolence

Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.

Sometimes violence cannot be stopped no matter what we do. But the more peaceful we are, the better chance we have of bringing out the peace in those around us.

I appeal to the youth to maintain peace and not indulge in violence.

I can tell you as a leader of a party that I'm fundamentally opposed to violence, fundamentally opposed to any innocent lives being taken, fundamentally opposed to any violence being perpetrated against people.

I don't attack innocent people.

I didn't kill innocent people.

It's not my intention to have anything at all to do with violence.

War will cease when men refuse to fight.

There must be no bloodshed, no violence unless it is defensive, no coercion! We must do it our way and our way alone! To do otherwise is to betray centuries of hardship and struggle. Above all else Kyfho. Forget Kyfho in your pursuit of victory over the enemy, and you will become the enemy...worse than the enemy because he doesn't know he is capable of anything better.

No hagan con otros lo que hicieron con ustedes, no paguen con la misma moneda, el mal con el mal, que imponer la vida es el crimen máximo. Dejen tranquilo al que no existe, ni está pidiendo venir, en la paz de la nada.

Ojo por ojo, y el mundo quedará ciego. MAHATMA GANDHI.

Draft beer, not people.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

Gandhi's insistence that personal change and the ability to bring about social change are linked. He warns that it is no use striving to implement principles such as nonviolence or justice in public affairs so long as one neglects them in one's personal life. And it is wise to begin in small and piecemeal ways.

I am against all war.

Even in moments of utter danger, a person like Mahatma Gandhi remained totally involved in his work.

I had sworn to myself – an oath which I still kept in 1940 – never to write a single word that affirmed war or disparaged another nation.

Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.

A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed.

Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.

Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.

The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.