Nonviolence Quotes · Page 8

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Nikhil Saluja

The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To build a mass movement, nonviolence is indispensable.

— Vijay Prashad

Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

It's clear to me that millions of young people understand and value my father's legacy of social change through nonviolence.

— Martin Luther King III

Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the…

— A. J. Muste

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“In the village, a sage should go about Like a bee, which, not harming Flower, colour or scent, Flies off with the…

— Anonymous

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through…

— Mark Pryor

“Nonviolence isn't sitting back with your arms folded. It is first recognizing that the very person who is your oppressor is also…

— Mev Puleo

Nonviolence as a lifestyle and perpetual strategy will allow us to be on the offense instead of continually on the defense. We…

— Bernice King

Nonviolence is based on recognizing that all of us are human beings. And at a certain point we begin to learn that…

— Grace Lee Boggs

I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far…

— Joan Baez

Conflicts are fueled by the tendency of the powerful to exploit the power and the anger and frustration of the powerless, which…

— Ghassan Andoni

What's going on down there, Katniss? Have they all joined hands? Taken a vow of nonviolence? Tossed the weapons in the sea…

— Suzanne Collins

We canot become nonviolent on the basis of intellectual conviction. Commitment to nonviolence demands a very profound conversion of mind and heart.…

— Thomas Gumbleton

Citizens across the United States are now uniting in a great cause to establish a Department of Peace, seeking nothing less than…

— Dennis Kucinich

“You keep buying your children toy pistols, then you wonder, why there is no peace in the world!”

— Abhijit Naskar

We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The ultimate way to solve human problems is with nonviolence.

— Dalai Lama

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.

— Jesse Jackson

Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's.

— Malcolm X

I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world.

— Coretta Scott King

A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics.

— Jerry Vlasak

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.

— Mahatma Gandhi