Quotes About Nonviolence

I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.

Obviously I'm not a violent person; I don't like violence, but I would definitely go into defending myself if the situation arose.

I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.

Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.

I'm not a violent person; I'm not interested in violence.

I'll tell you as one of the lead Trump people and the campaign manager of the army of Trump, that I would never want any single person to do anything violent against anyone.

BSP does not believe in organizing violent protest. It's a disciplined party and follows democratic process to oppose anti-people policies of government.

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.

The !Kung are strongly set against violence, and accord it no honor. To have to fight is to have failed to find a solution by wiser means... "Fighting is dangerous—someone might get killed".

But we don't have to react. That's what I'm saying. A police force, like a government, should be above that. Just because we're provoked doesn't mean we have to act. -- Still Life

violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.' — Martin Luther King, Jr.

It was the fact that I didn't want to kill anyone. I wasn't put on this earth to murder my fellow man. I'd grown up with violence - can't you see that? I can't bear it.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business

To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.

All beings tremble before danger, all fear death. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.

Personally I do not resort to force - not even the force of law - to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example - of fashion.