Quotes About Nonviolence

Learn all the handicrafts', said the Mahatma, 'that's the way to peaceful independence. If you use rifles and guns and tanks, it is a foolish thing.

Gandhi's fast unto death to keep the Depressed Classes in the Hindu fold was to begin at 12 noon on 20 September 1932.

Ramachandra Guha

When the rebels tried to get them to join the army, or pay extra taxes for the war, or at the very least sign a loyalty oath, the Mennonites just said no.

Had dad chosen to use violence he would have been immediately annihilated.

I never fought much. It just wasn't my thing. I suppose I could, but I've never got into fights. Not a real one.

Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!

Humiliate your enemy is dangerous.

It is also necessary in both public and private life to refrain consistently and empathically from inflicting pain. To act or speak violently out of spite, chauvinism or self-interest, to impoverish, exploit or deny basic rights to anybody, and to incite hatred by denigrating others—even our enemies—is a denial of our common humanity.

Martin Luther King Jr. believed that the highest point of Jesus's life was the moment when he forgave his executioners

Violence never worked in the service of women.

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

That's me, man – I'm a lover not a fighter.

I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.

I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.

No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.

I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.

The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.

The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.

Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others.

Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.