Quotes About Nonviolence

Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it.

Two thousand years ago, we abandoned imperialism and militarism. We have been peace-lovers ever since.

I always emphasize that in the long run one can't satisfactorily say no to war, violence and injustice unless one is simultaneously saying yes to life and love and laughter.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided.

We can do more for the peace just by changing our thoughts. Be an example of compassion and kindness like Mother Teresa. We all can do that without harming anyone.

Peace is not only the absence of violence, but the presence of love, kindness, compassion and harmony.

If peace is our ultimate goal, love should be our only weapon.

I would like to invite everyone for the Third World War, but fight the war with love, not with the gun, to win the world peace. We all will be a winner.

Be an instrument of peace, not a preacher of hate.

I hope some day we will learn to use the power of love, not the power of gun and world will see the universal peace.

I have a dream that one day this world will be very peaceful and people will fight, not with their weapons, but with their love.

We need to win by the power of love, not by the destruction of war.

If you love everyone, you will not need to fight with enemy.

He never published any more cruel and anonymous satire either, for he'd finally learned that it could hurt people and lead to embarrassing and potentially dangerous repercussions. Moreover, he avoided even the threat of fighting to uphold his honor. He deplored violence anyway. When someone insulted him or tried to pick a fight, Lincoln just laughed at the man and walked off.

Gandhi insisted upon returning love for hatred and respect for contempt.

A central pillar of his later teaching was that fearlessness is a prerequisite for nonviolence.

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Gandhi: The Essential Writings. Oxford University Press: London, 2008

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The mantra becomes" M. K. Gandhi. Self Restraint v. Self-Indulgence. Navajivan Publishing, 1947

Eknath Easwaran. Gandhi the Man. Nilgiri Press: Novales, California, 1997