Best Non Violence Sayings
152 Non Violence quotes by 52 unique authors
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Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I…
— Dick Cavett
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War traumatizes soldier and civilian alike; warfare is a profit-making racket; warfare resolves nothing that negotiations can't resolve better; the weapons we have now make…
— Unknown Author
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The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
— Gautama Buddha
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Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the vicious cycles of…
— John Dear
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I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent. But what happens…
— Bhagat Singh
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The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence.
— Rajneesh
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It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means…
— Petra Kelly
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The establishment irritates you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight because once they've got you violent they know how…
— John Lennon
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Let the Jews who claim to be the chosen race prove their title by choosing the way of non-violence for vindicating their position on earth.…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best
— Ela Bhatt
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Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give meaning to our…
— Dalai Lama
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Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.
— Amit Ray
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It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.
— Christopher Hampton
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H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It doesn’t mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to act without violence,…
— Dalai Lama
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If somebody's in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out.
— Ron Paul
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We can make this a more peaceful century if we cherish non-violence and concern for others’ well-being. It is possible. If the individual is happier,…
— Dalai Lama
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If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Bridges are burning all around us; bridges to responses that might have mitigated the already brutal (and just beginning) ravages of Peak Oil; bridges to…
— Michael Ruppert
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Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The horror of Gandhi's murder lies not in the political motives behind it or in its consequences for Indian policy or for the future of…
— Mary McCarthy
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