Quotes About Nonviolence

A satyagrahi has infinite patience, abundant faith in others, and ample hope.

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.

If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

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

Peace is not the product of terror or fear.

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

We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.

A consistent peace activist must be an anarchist.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.

Peace has no borders.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

Peace equals ability to handle conflict, with empathy, nonviolence, and creativity.

If you try to fix violence with violence, you do NOTHING but create violence.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence.

War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way.

You must fight others, but through peace, and through dialogue, and through education.

Peace is achieved with rice and salt, not with katanas and arrows

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.