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Nonviolence Quotes by Nelson Mandela
- For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.
- Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its…
- Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.
- Of all the observations I have made on the strike, none has brought forth so much heat and emotion as the stress and emphasis we…
More Nonviolence Quotes
- In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with… — Vinoba Bhave
- War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will… — 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,… — Vanna Bonta
- Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to… — 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… — Nikki Giovanni
- If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts… — 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… — 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… — Mairead Corrigan
- The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent… — Nhat Hanh
- Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence. — Joan Baez