Nonviolence Quotes

217 quotes by 96 authors

In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor. — Vinoba Bhave
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how… — Jimmy Carter
There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence. — Cesar Chavez
A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural… — Vanna Bonta
Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of… — Mahatma Gandhi
His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction… — Nikki Giovanni
If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will… — Cesar Chavez
The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and a lot harder… — Colman McCarthy
Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment. — Nhat Hanh
I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures… — Mairead Corrigan
The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally.… — Nhat Hanh
Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence. — Joan Baez
...I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of all humanity -… — Mairead Corrigan
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows… — Mahatma Gandhi
Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting. — Sun Tzu
In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that confronted generations in… — Marianne Williamson
Nonviolence is absolute respect for each human being. — Adolfo Perez Esquivel
Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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