Quotes About Nonviolence

There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.

Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?

We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.

I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.

There is nothing more powerful than peace.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

Would you end war? Create great Peace.

It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.

The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.

Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

The basis for peace is respecting all creatures.

I'd rather teach peace.

Peace is our passion.

What would happen if all the populations on the planet simply refused to fight human beings they did not even know?

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace but a canting impotence.

They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruninghooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more.

There's a place between passivity and violence. I'll meet you there.

For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force.

Raise your thoughts, not your fists.

On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's birthday, I salute every individual who honors the core values of his legacy, making him proud of humanity.