Activity Quote by Jon Kabat-Zinn

I'm not prescribing non-doing as a universal response to our problems. Sometimes, something obviously needs to be done. And we retreat into a spiritual…

— Charles Eisenstein

Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.

— Mahatma Gandhi

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

— Pliny the Younger

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The most efficient action, the most significant testimony to nonviolence, is living a life in which there is no violence-showing that such a life…

— Lanza del Vasto

Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.

— 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…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

— Martin Luther King, Jr