The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Daddy taught us through his philosophy of nonviolence, which placed love at the centerpiece, that through that love we can turn enemies… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I am a very violent person, Yet nobody has seen my violence. I've kept it overwhelmed all my life, With a heart… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
Nonviolence as a lifestyle and perpetual strategy will allow us to be on the offense instead of continually on the defense. We… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
To me nonviolence has come to represent a panacea for all the evils that surround my people. Therefore I am devoting all… — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Nonviolent passive resistance is effective as long as your opposition adheres to the same rules as you do. But if peaceful protest… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Anger is the enemy of nonviolence and pride is a monster that swallows it up. — Tenzin Gyatso Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative. — Hildegard Goss-Mayr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“[Politics] is always a means of conquering others and exercising power over them.” — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Nonviolence cannot be used successfully to protect special privileges that have been won by violence.” — David T. Dellinger Copy Share Image