Quotes About Nonviolence

Classifying and judging people promotes violence.

When we judge others we contribute to violence.

Two things distinguish nonviolent actions from violent actions. First, you don't see an enemy and second, your intention is not to make the other side suffer.

When we are angry, killing people is too superficial.

Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.

The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change.

By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.

It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.

Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.

Violence and war lead only to death.

Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.

recall Gandhi's remark that if you take the principle "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" to its logical conclusion, eventually the whole world will go blind and toothless.

Most importantly, he countered violence with nonviolence, and hatred with love. "Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred," he exhorted his followers. "We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

King clung to nonviolence because he profoundly believed that only a movement based on love could keep the oppressed from becoming a mirror image of their oppressors. He wanted to change the hearts of the white people, yes, but in a way that did not in the process harden the hearts of the blacks he was leading toward freedom. Nonviolence, he believed, 'will save the Negro from seeking to substitute one tyranny for another.

Le temps est venu de consacrer des moyens à la vie et non à la mort avec les armements qui n'en finissent pas de se perfectionner.

In light of reports of more demonstrations, I urge that there must be NO violence, NO lawbreaking and NO vandalism of any kind. That is not what I stand for, and it is not what America stands for. I call on ALL Americans to help ease tensions and calm tempers. Thank You.

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

There is a certain kind of dignity we admire, and to which we aspire, in the person who refuses to meet anger with anger, violence with violence, or hatred with hatred.

in the sentiment of Mahatma Gandhi, when we practice the law of an eye for an eye, we all end up blind.

When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.

We should live out our particular brand of faith, sure - but we should never force our brand of faith upon anyone else. All violence starts with the desire to change others and then never, ever ends.

The wise and sagacious men of ancient times had the very spirit of the martial and did not kill.