Nonviolence Quotes

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution.

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving dear ones unprotected. Between violence and cowardly flight, I can only prefer violence to cowardice. I can no more preach nonviolence to a coward than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer.

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

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.

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence.

Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

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

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.

Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

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

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it.

I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr.

King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better.

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence.

These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.

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

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon.

Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.