Quotes About Non-violence

To be violent is the ultimate laziness. War always seems a great effort, but it is the easy way. And false non-violence is also an idol.

I'm not a very violent dude, and if something can be settled without any physicality, I'm always in favor of that. But if somebody comes near my kids, the atavistic crazy lion comes out.

We want to go further than preventing people from becoming terrorists and focus on a broader approach to counter-extremism - both violent and non-violent.

Atheists do not seek to violently impose their non-belief onto others. They simply reject all gods inherent to the 10,000 religions known to mankind.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system's game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor.

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its full potency and not have discarded it as soon as the fight against the British was over or we were in a position to wield conventional weapons. But as I have already said, we adopted it out of our helplessness. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

When asked about his apparent lack of anger toward the Chinese by an incredulous reporter at the time he won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Dalai Lama replied something to the effect that: "They have taken everything from us; should I let them take my mind as well?

For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.

Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.

His headstone said Free at last, Free at last - But death is a slave's freedom - We seek the freedom of free men - And the construction of a world - Where Martin Luther King could have lived - and preached non-violence

The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.

Sword and fist are the instruments of primitive; non-violence is the instrument of developed man!

Non-violence is the law of our being, as violence is of the brute. Non-violence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than and superior to brute force, Not violence, not untruth, but non-violence and truth are the law of our being.

You're lucky I took me a vow of non-violence, or you'd be suffering some pain right now.

The practice of non-violence requires a belief in divine vengeance.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Non-violence is the article of faith.