Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating. — Cesar Chavez 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
Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non-violence. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“To follow what is good and just; is to be willing to be wounded in war. Protesting in causes of "non-violence" is… — Alan Maiccon Copy Share Image
I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart… — Henry Clarke Wright Copy Share Image
We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence.… — Joan Baez 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
At the present moment, in the prevailing situation, what is most essential is the cultivation of love. Losing love mankind has lost… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the… — Scilla Elworthy Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and… — Judith Butler 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
“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
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
...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The enumeration of human values as five - Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-violence is not correct. They are all facets of… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in… — Petra Kelly 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
I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
I don't belong to a church or political party or a group of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the… — Sting Copy Share Image
It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
As children, we said no, we rebelled, we had temper tantrums and meltdowns. We tested our limits. Our parents' limits. All limits.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The first principal of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons. — Aung San Suu Kyi 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