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Quotes About Nonviolence

Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We have the right to "Freedom of Peace".
~ Unknown
Raise your thoughts, not your fists.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I'm not afraid of anything and I will not fight.
~ Matthew De Abaitua
In advocating nonviolence one reinforces established violence.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The Resurrection revealed a defined God who resist violence with powerful nonviolence and refuses to allow death to keep its grip on His child. And by raising Jesus from the dead, He raised every story He ever told, every sermon He ever preached, every value He ever stood for, every preference for the poor and the outcast that He espoused.
~ Megan McKenna
A dog can bite you but you must not bite the dog! Your every movement in life must be peaceful; otherwise you lose your ethical superiority! Nonviolent civil disobedience is a genius; no power can beat it; use it when necessary!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
All countries must be governed by the modern people; they must be governed by the progressive people; they must be governed by those who believe in the reason and science; they must be governed by the compassionate and just, by the ethical and honest, by the nonviolent and peaceful people; they must be governed by the libertarians; they must be governed by the people who believe in the enlightenment and who refuse to shape the society based on some childish religious stories!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Do not admire the warriors; do not admire the fighters; condemn the fist! Get rid of this low culture of wildness! Admire the nonviolent; applaud the peaceful; despise the brute force!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
For a nation to be known as warrior is a shame! For a nation to be known as peaceful is an honour! Violence brings shame, killing brings disgrace; peacefulness brings honour, nonviolence brings esteem!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
No hero is a hero if he ever killed someone! Only the man who has not any blood in his hand can be a real hero! The honour of being a hero belongs exclusively to the peaceful people!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Once you take sword in your hand, you will lose your right to talk about the peace! Man of peace and love never takes the sword in his hand!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The more you stand aloof from the sword, from the arrow, from the lance and from the fist, the more you become civilised!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Whatever your objective in life may be, never use violence to get it! Violence belongs to the Land of Evil; once you enter there, your face and your heart is forever sealed with the devilish ugliness of the violence!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.
~ Meshell Ndegeocello
As long as people use violence to combat violence, we will always have violence.
~ Unknown
Power to the peaceful!
~ Michael Franti
1. There is no lying, stealing or violence involved
~ Unknown
What I will argue is that, throughout the New Testament, faith, as a practice, is about faithfulness even to the point of suffering and death; love, as a practice, has a distinctive, Christlike shape of siding with the weak and eschewing domination in favor of service; and hope, as a practice, means living peaceably (which includes nonviolently) and making peace. Thus the summary triad "faithfulness, love, and peace" is appropriate.
~ Unknown
experience convinces me that no permanent good can come out of untruth and violence.
~ Unknown
I think this galaxy would be a whole lot nicer and more pleasant place to live if we all just stop killing one another. Who's with me on this?" A few chuckles and a couple of faux cheers were the response. "You're a visionary," I-Five told him. "Float it past Palpatine, see what he thinks," Uli suggested.
~ Michael Reaves
Be a lover and not a fighter. Being a lover gives you all the magical might but as a fighter it's an ugly plight. Win this world with love don't terrorize, love one love all simply MickeyMize.
~ Unknown