Nonviolence Quotes · Page 8

Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is essentially based on recognizing the humanity in every one one of us.

— Grace Lee Boggs

If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Kindness has no religion. Religions are like narrow tracks but kindness is like an open sky.”

— Amit Ray

A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“YOU CANNOT DEFEAT YOUR ENEMY WITHOUT FIGHTING EVEN THROUGH AHIMSA.”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

Peace, unity, love, and nonviolence should be our rallying cry and the catalyst for change in our nation.

— Tony Evans

I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new…

— Mairead Corrigan

A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence…

— Jesse Jackson

I would like to say that the very root of respect for human rights and nonviolence is love and kindness to others.

— Anonymous

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Simply put: because nonviolence worked so well as a tactic for effecting change and was demonstrably improving their lives, some black people…

— Charles E. Cobb

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

...I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of…

— Mairead Corrigan

We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means.…

— Elise M. Boulding

Emotional intelligence in the work that we do, in the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, is about equipping young people with the kinds…

— Linda Lantieri

Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she…

— Gary L. Francione

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

Nonviolent actions are by their nature androgynous. In them the two impulses that have long been treated as distinct, 'masculine' and 'feminine,'…

— Barbara Deming

“He has read whole volumes on the philosophy of nonviolence. How peace had to be understood in all its moral dimensions. The…

— Colum McCann

I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart,…

— Joan Baez

Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.

— Joan Baez

You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

A man should use his hands to HOLD his woman not HIT her.

— Sonya Parker

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

— Nelson Mandela

For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.

— John Lewis

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

— Mahatma Gandhi