I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing naïve -… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... In… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Worship whatever is spiritual, then it is possible to attain spirituality. Where true spirituality exists, there is nothing related to sensual pleasures,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more.” — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent — Betty Williams Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“The first principal of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
War traumatizes soldier and civilian alike; warfare is a profit-making racket; warfare resolves nothing that negotiations can't resolve better; the weapons we… — Madeline Taylor Copy Share Image
“The greatest violence (hinsa) in this world is that of anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays – the ones that gives pain to soul).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Imagine the National Guard being called against a group of peaceful people. How far can we get; how disgraceful can it become?… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
“Where there is partiality (pakshapaat), there is violence (himsa); it is speech that hurts (himsak vani). Where there is impartial speech (nishpakshapati… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“A victory is a victory only if it is achieved peacefully, without any use of violence! If you have defeated your enemy… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the… — John Dear Copy Share Image
To me non-violence has come to represent a panacea for all the evils that surround my people, and, therefore, I am devoting… — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Copy Share Image
Bridges are burning all around us; bridges to responses that might have mitigated the already brutal (and just beginning) ravages of Peak… — Michael Ruppert Copy Share Image
There must be no bloodshed, no violence unless it is defensive, no coercion! We must do it our way and our way… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
“What is the violent intent (bhaav-hinsa)? Violence (hinsa) against your real Self through anger-pride-deceit-greed; meaning anger-pride-deceit-greed that causes bondage to your Self,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Practise any one of the human values. Prema (love) is the basis for all the values. Action with love is right conduct.… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he was… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“In the use of force, one simplifies the situation by assuming that the evil to be overcome is clear-cut, definite, and irreversible.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
