Quotes About Nonviolence

Don't stand back with your arms folded step forward... There is hope and light to resist injustice and promote peace without violence.

The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.

Violence begins with the fork.

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

My philosophy is that one shall not resort to violence unless one is resolved to become the subject of violence at any time.

You shouldn't run around killing people or eating meat. That's not what we mean by tantra. There's no need to break the rules.

If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]'s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn't have bin Ladens.

It is easy to conform, but it takes great courage to stand up for peace.

Love and kindness are a kind of gun that we can use to change everyone without hurting anyone.

Be an echo of peace not an echo of bullets.

We can't win the world with weapons or violence.We can win the world with love and practice of nonviolence.

In a fight to the death, I would in no doubt throw the fight.signed.....A pacifist

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!

The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.

Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.

I'm convinced nonviolence can be successful in working for positive change in our relations with other countries right now.

You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone.

We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

I have seen groups of people overcome incredible odds as they became aware they are participating in a cause beyond self and sense the movement of the inexorable which comes from unity. Violence is not inevitable. War is not inevitable. Nonviolence and peace are inevitable. We can make of this world a gift of peace which will confirm the presence of universal spirit in our lives. We can send into the future the gift which will protect our children from fear, from harm, from destruction.11