Quotes About Nonviolence

Because violence can only breed more violence and suffering, our struggle must remain nonviolent and free of hatred. We are trying to end the suffering of our people, not to inflict suffering on others.

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

That's a direct lesson every parent should consider quite deeply: do we want to teach our kids that the way to resolve a conflict is to inflict physical pain, particularly on someone who is defenseless and cannot fight back?

In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Violence is my last option.

I don't support violence and I don't support negative energy. I don't support people putting other people down.

My opinion is that protesting, there's no problem with it, as long as it is peaceful without violence, without vandalism.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

I think violence can never be justified.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

You can't change the system through violence.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.

Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world.

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

I don't support violence, period.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.