Quotes About Nonviolence

I believe that the essence of every person's religion should be the endeavour not to hurt another person or living thing and to preserve his environment.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Missandei said the Peaceful People made music instead of war. They did not kill, not even animals; they ate only fruit and never flesh.

I believe in using words, not fists.

A gentle Quaker, hearing a strange noise in his house one night, got up and discovered a burglar busily at work. He went and got his gun, came back and stood quietly in the doorway. 'Friend,' he said, 'I would do thee no harm for the world, but thou standest where I am about to shoot.'

I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.

Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.

Mine is an unarmed people, whose children have never seen a fighter or a tank or a warship.

Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.

Long live all us crazy soldiers Who were born under calico skies May we never be called to handle All the weapons of war we despise

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.

I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

We ain't goin' study war no more.

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.

If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others' cities up in the night in pinks and greens.

When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.