Nonviolence Quotes · Page 6

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have no weapon but nonviolence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction.

— Nikhil Saluja

The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The weak can never forgive.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Kill not, cause no pain. Nonviolence is the greatest religion .”

— Mahavira

Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the…

— Miroslav Volf

The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

— Cesar Chavez

We cherish the conventional story of Dr. King and nonviolence, in fact, precisely because that narrative demands so little of us…This conventional…

— Timothy B. Tyson

Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolent Peaceforce ...is building a large-scale professional force of well-trained unarmed peacekeepers ... This nonviolent peacekeeping provides an alternative to which we…

— Mel Duncan

We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more…

— Mahatma Gandhi

[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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