Quotes About Nonviolence

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...

He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.

The healthy man does not torture others.

The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.

Those who naively credit Gandhi with a conscientious or consistent pacifism might wish to ask if this did not amount to letting the Japanese imperialists do his fighting for him.

He places placidity above all                And refuses to prettify weapons;        If one prettifies weapons,                This is to delight in the killing of other..

Citizens, in the future there will be neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance, nor bloody retaliation. As there will be no more Satan, there will be no more Michael. In the future no one will kill any one else, the earth will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it will come, and it is in order that it may come that we are about to die.

We gotta put our heads together, and stop the violenceCause real bad boys move in silenceWhen you're in a club, you come to chill outNot watch someone's blood just spill outThat's what these other people want to seeAnother race fight endlessly

We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid.

Our grief is not a cry for war.

Author unknown, c.1980s

Make beard, not war.

From that moment on I have never handled a gun. I have found even the shooting of a rattlesnake abhorrent, and I recommend to all my descendants that they keep away from firearms, for I have found that they do far more damage to good men than to evil.

The real reason that nonviolence is considered to be a virtue in Negroes—I am not speaking now of its racial value, another matter altogether—is that white men do not want their lives, their self-image, or their property threatened.

but there is no reason that black men should be expected to be more patient, more forbearing, more farseeing than whites; indeed, quite the contrary. The real reason that nonviolence is considered to be a virtue in Negroes—I am not speaking now of its racial value, another matter altogether—is that white men do not want their lives, their self-image, or their property threatened.

The real reason that nonviolence is considered to be a virtue in Negroes—I am not speaking now of its racial value, another matter altogether—is that white men do not want their lives, their self-image, or their property threatened. One wishes they would say so more often.

We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.

Whenever possible, choose peace.

No man is a great man if he used violence to achieve his goals!

We will not suffer If we do not cause others to suffer.

It is unmanly. It is not some expression of macho virtue. It is the absolute antithesis of this. Real men don't bully women and children. Respect for women ... is so important.

Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

We are not seeking... and looking for war with any nations. We are seeking peace and stability among all the nations in the region.

I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.