Best Non Violence Quotes

152 Non Violence quotes by 52 unique authors

• Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have… — Mahatma Gandhi
• The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or… — Sam Peckinpah
• What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? — Alan Paton
• And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are… — George Bernard Shaw
• He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder. — Unknown Author
• Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to… — Joseph de Maistre
• Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place. — Mahatma Gandhi
• An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should… — Mahatma Gandhi
• He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa. — Mahatma Gandhi
• Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort. — Mahatma Gandhi
• Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers,… — Mahatma Gandhi
• It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and… — Mahatma Gandhi
• The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we must… — Mahatma Gandhi
• Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as… — Mahatma Gandhi
• We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty… — Nelson Mandela
• Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to do harm. As… — Kevin Martin
• It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy… — Martin Luther
• Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are — Jonathon Porritt
• I and some colleagues came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be wrong and unrealistic for African leaders… — Nelson Mandela
• Non-violence can truly flourish when the world is free of poverty, hunger, discrimination, exclusion, intolerance and hatred - when women and men can realize their… — Anwarul Karim Chowdhury

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Who Wrote These Non Violence Quotes

52 authors contributed a total of 152 Non Violence Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 60 Non Violence Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
• 18 Non Violence Quotes by Cesar Chavez
• 9 Non Violence Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 7 Non Violence Quotes by Dalai Lama
• 5 Non Violence Quotes by Nelson Mandela
• 3 Non Violence Quotes by Unknown Author
• 3 Non Violence Quotes by Joan Baez
• 2 Non Violence Quotes by Petra Kelly
• 2 Non Violence Quotes by Malcolm X
• 1 Non Violence Quote by Walter Wink
• 1 Non Violence Quote by Thomas A. Edison
• 1 Non Violence Quote by Sri Sathya Sai Baba
• 1 Non Violence Quote by Scilla Elworthy
• 1 Non Violence Quote by Sam Peckinpah
• 1 Non Violence Quote by Ron Paul
• 1 Non Violence Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Non Violence Quote by Rajneesh
• 1 Non Violence Quote by Pawan Kalyan
• 1 Non Violence Quote by PaGla_KaHiN_Ka
• 1 Non Violence Quote by Nikki Giovanni
• 1 Non Violence Quote by Michael Ruppert
• 1 Non Violence Quote by Mary McCarthy
• 1 Non Violence Quote by Martin Luther
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• 1 Non Violence Quote by Kevin Martin