Quotes About Nonviolence

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.

What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?

For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.

Imagine a world, if you will, where crime does not exist. A startling proposition that seems outlandish, but our imaginations, of course, need not be bounded by the rules and restrictions imposed by realism. It would be a world, one might suppose, where equality reigned, where the thought of violence was so alien that it need not be practiced.

Nonviolence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all living beings, we are all savages.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

Aunque el budismo es una de las religiones más antiguas, nunca ha habido una guerra en su nombre o por su doctrina.

Nonviolence is pretty ballsy, pretty advanced weaponry.

My work has always been rooted in nonviolence, as espoused by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not.

Nonviolence would work today, it would work 2,000 years from now, it would work 5,000 years from now.

We are rooted in Kingian nonviolence.

My father's approach to the most brutal and unambiguous social injustices during the civil rights struggle was rooted in nonviolence as a morally and tactically correct response.

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

I believe in a nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, sanctions.

There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters.

Satyagraha: the revelation of truth and the confrontation of injustice through nonviolent means.

It is only when mosquito land on your balls that you realize there is a way to solve problems without using violence.

Hurting people not only does not change them, it is never called for.

The desire for a nonviolent and cooperative world is the healthiest of all psychological manifestations. This is the overarching principle of liberation and revolution. Undoubtedly, it seems the highest order of contradiction that, in order to achieve nonviolence, we must first break with it in overcoming its root causes. Therein lies our only hope.

A mind at peace a mind centered and not focused on harming others is stronger than any physical force in the universe.