Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience. — Julia Bacha Copy Share Image
The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We often forget that calling for peace is the most courageous act we can take. It's easy to call for revenge, to… — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
In the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With the very same powers - spiritual, social, scientific - we can… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
The most efficient action, the most significant testimony to nonviolence, is living a life in which there is no violence-showing that such… — Lanza del Vasto Copy Share Image
“I argue that even as the war is framed in certain ways to control and heighten affect in relation to the differential… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“We've evolved from the jungle, violence is in our DNA. That's not up for debate, it's a biological fact. Question is, will… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The Indian government has managed to turn the concept of nonviolence on its head. Nonviolent resistance and nonviolent governance. Unlike, say, China… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed… — Eliot Engel Copy Share Image
The process of nonviolence is one that takes time and those of us who've suffered, who've been persecuted over the years, would… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence. — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech. — Nathaniel Altman Copy Share Image
I cannot teach you violence,as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I don't need to swear to speak, I don't need to use my fist to make my point and I don't need… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
“The best weapon to destroy a demon is violence and the best weapon to destroy an injustice is nonviolence, said by Justice” — P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar Copy Share Image
If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence,… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“We cannot shoot our way to justice, We cannot lynch our way to liberty. We cannot nuke our way to peace, We… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
