Quotes About Nonviolence

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

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Be a vegetarian. That was the best advice I ever took. It means I'm not involved in killing, that's the main thing.

To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.

The best way to avoid warfare is if no one shows up.

Hatred never ceases by hatred But by love alone is healed. This is an ancient and eternal law.

Meditation is a totally nonviolent, nonaggressive occupation. Not filling the space, allowing for the possibility of connecting with unconditional openness—this provides the basis for real change. You might say this is setting ourselves a task that is almost impossible. Maybe that is true. But on the other hand, the more we sit with this impossibility, the more we find it's always possible after all.

Pacifists have usually regarded the use of violence as absolutely wrong, irrespective of its consequences. This, like other 'no matter what' prohibitions, assumes the validity of the distinction between acts and omissions. Without this distinction, pacifists who refuse to use violence when it is the only means of preventing greater violence would be responsible for the greater violence they fail to prevent.

I would never advocate violence on Trump or anyone.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

I don't approve of any of kind of violence, but I'll always support my country.

Pacifism is not a panacea; it asks only that people should relinquish the habit of deliberate imposition of suffering.

I've been accused of teaching a one-sided course, that I don't expose students to the other side, except that my course is the other side—the one that students aren't getting in conventional history or political science courses that present violent militaristic solutions as rational and necessary.

Drop your weapons and save your souls from an eternity of despair for spreading such evil as war and destruction.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

Peace should not depend on force.

Nonviolence as a lifestyle and perpetual strategy will allow us to be on the offense instead of continually on the defense. We will be able to move the ball down the field with team decisions and playmaking versus constantly thinking about how the opposing forces are moving the ball.

the principle of always seeking an alternative applies to nonviolence as well. It is this: If nonviolence is to be credible, it must answer the questions that violence purports to answer, but in a better way.

Martin Luther King Jr., the nation's apostle of nonviolence, once said, "A riot is the language of the unheard."32 But King also showed us that, ultimately, only disciplined, sacrificial, and nonviolent social movements can change things.

Gandhi on Nonviolence, Louis Fischer's Life of Mahatma Gandhi, Jerome Frank's Breaking the Thought Barrier, Thoreau's On Civil Disobedience, Krishnamurti's The First and Last Freedom and Think on These Things, C. Wright Mills's The Power Elite, Huxley's Ends and Means, and Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media.

their reading: Gandhi on Nonviolence, Louis Fischer's Life of Mahatma Gandhi, Jerome Frank's Breaking the Thought Barrier, Thoreau's On Civil Disobedience, Krishnamurti's The First and Last Freedom and Think on These Things, C. Wright Mills's The Power Elite, Huxley's Ends and Means, and Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media. On the fifth day

The first thing to be disrupted by our commitment to nonviolence will be not the system but our own lives.

Marshall took nonviolence a step further - beyond Gandhi.