Quotes About Nonviolence

The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.

None of us wants any more war.

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they didn't want.

I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world by killing and shooting. You have the change it by creating and competing.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

The regenerated do not go to war, nor engage in strife. They are children of peace who have beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning forks, and know no war.

Freedom is not nurtured by nations preparing for war.

No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.

Force is the weapon of the weak.

When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.

The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?

We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.

Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.

No more wars, no more bloodshed, and no more threats.