Best 148 quotes in «nonviolence quotes» category

Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.

For mass struggles, nonviolence is essential.

India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

I have no weapon but nonviolence.

I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.

In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.

My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.

Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.

Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.

Marshall took nonviolence a step further - beyond Gandhi.

Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.

Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.

Nonviolence is essentially based on recognizing the humanity in every one one of us.

Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.

Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.

The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.

Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.

The lessons of nonviolence are universal. Not just for America.

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

To build a mass movement, nonviolence is indispensable.

Veganism is about nonviolence: nonviolence to other sentient beings; nonviolence to yourself; nonviolence to the earth.

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

Advaita, being the non-dual reality, necessarily points to the essential truth in all religions. Paula Marvelly points out that: 'All religions and faiths contain an esoteric heart, a mystical belief that I AM is in fact synonymous with God.' (Ref. 353) As Gandhi said: 'If the same divinity constitutes the core of all individuals, they cannot but be equal. Further, divinity in one person cannot in any way be unjust to the same divinity in another person.' (Ref. 215) Sayings from the bible such as those of God to Moses ('I am that I am' ) or of Christ ('The kingdom of heaven is within you') express the fundamental truth of Advaita, the non-dual reality of Brahman.

3. War Peace & Action - 3B.02 LOVE & PEACE Hatred goes not by hatred, Violence not by violence, Disappear hatred and violence, By love, understanding, non-violence. [241] - 3B

The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

Action is a part of the very reality it transforms, just as the wave is a part of the ocean. The point is not to renounce action, but to act with serenity. Our action will be all the more effective, and all the happier.

A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of full victory. It underestimates the value of confrontation and dissolves the confidence born of partial victory by which new efforts are powered.

After the riot in Chicago that Summer, I was greatly discouraged. But we had trained a group of about two thousand disciplined devotees of nonviolence who were willing to take blows without retaliation. We started out engaging in constitutional privileges, marching before real estate offices in all-white communities. And that nonviolent , disciplined, determined force created such a crisis in the city of Chicago that the city had to do something to change conditions. We didn’t have any Molotov cocktails, we didn’t have any bricks, we didn’t have guns, we just had the power of our bodies and our souls. There was power there, and it was demonstrated once more.

All my adult life I have deplored violence and war as instruments for achieving solutions to mankind’s problems. I am firmly committed to the creative power of nonviolence as the force which is capable of winning lasting and meaningful brotherhood and peace.

Among all the virtues nonviolence is the supreme.

Among all the methods non-violence is most successful and I strongly believe that only non-violence can set the true mood of peace and harmony among the nuclear nations. Our experiments with non-violence should be more wide, more engaging and more humble.

Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interests in being treated “humanely,” but that term is interpreted in large part to mean that we cannot impose “unnecessary” harm on animals, and that is measured by what treatment is considered as necessary within particular industries, and according to customs of use, to exploit animals. The bottom line is that animals do not have any respect-based rights in the way that humans have, because we do not regard animals as having any moral value. They have only economic value. We value their interests economically, and we ignore their interests when it is economically beneficial for us to do so. At this point in time, it makes no sense to focus on the law, because as long as we regard animals as things, as a moral matter, the laws will necessarily reflect that absence of moral value and continue to do nothing to protect animals. We need to change social and moral thinking about animals before the law is going to do anything more.

And the extraordinary thing is that according to these texts all powers, all the power and glory of the kingdoms, all that has to do with politics and political authority, belongs to the devil. It has all been given to him and he gives it to whom he wills. Those who hold political power receive it from him and depend upon him. (It is astonishing that in the innumerable theological discussions of the legitimacy of political power, no one has ever adduced these texts! [Matthew 4:8-9; Luke 4:6-7]) This fact is no less important than the fact that Jesus rejects the devil's offer. Jesus does not say to the devil: It is not true. You do not have power over kingdoms and states. He does not dispute this claim. He refuses the offer of power because the devil demands that he should fall down before him. This is the sole point when he says: 'You shall worship the Lord your God and you shall serve him, only him' (Matthew 4:10). We may thus say that among Jesus' immediate followers and in the first Christian generation political authorities - what we call the state - belonged to the devil and those who held power received it from him.

Anger is good... Anger, you see, is to people what fuel is to an automobile. Without it, we would not be motivated to rise to any challenge, and life would be no more than mere existence. Anger is an energy that compels us to define what is right and wrong, good and bad, just and unjust. Anger is also like electricity. Electricity is powerful-- so powerful, in fact, that it can cause devastating destruction if it is mishandled or abused. But if channeled properly and intelligently, it is highly useful to mankind.

Anyone can shoot a gun but the real power comes from non-violent means.