Best 148 quotes in «nonviolence quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.

Marshall took nonviolence a step further - beyond Gandhi.

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

Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.

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

The Charkha is an outward symbol 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 practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

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

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

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

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

The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.

To build a mass movement, nonviolence is indispensable.

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

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.

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.

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.

But I am also concerned about our moral uprightness and the health of our souls. Therefore I must oppose any attempt to gain our freedom by the methods of malice, hate, and violence that have characterized our oppressors. Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Many of our inner conflicts are rooted in hate. This is why psychiatrists say, “Love or perish.” Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Catastrophic climate change is the natural consequence of global systemic violence. That means, it is intimately connected with racism, sexism, classism, militarism, war, nuclear weapons, and every form of violence. If we want to deepen our nonviolence and our conscious oneness with the earth, we have to connect the various facets of systemic violence with environmental destruction so we know what we are up against, what we are resisting, and how broad out creative nonviolence needs to go.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

Compassion means removal of suffering – suffering of the self and the others.

Creativity and intelligence, rather than violence, are the best problem solvers.

Fighting fire with fire will burn the whole world to ashes.

Gandhi, convinced of the power of satyagraha, suggested that it be used by the Jews against the Nazis. In response, Martin Buber – who had earlier (1930) written that much could be learned from Gandhi – said that this method could not be used against the Nazis. It is one thing to use nonviolent methods against those who would deprive you of some material benefit, but if their basic aim is to deprive you of life itself, how can you resist nonviolently?

God is within you, open your heart and uncover that godliness.

Her stillness defeated his storm.

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 of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached non-violence

I am convinced that even violent temperaments can be channeled through nonviolent discipline, if they can act constructively and express through an effective channel their very legitimate anger.

I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally justified, then we ought to be clear about that, and advocate for no use. Although rape and child molestation are ubiquitous, we do not have campaigns for “humane” rape or “humane” child molestation. We condemn it all. We should do the same with respect to animal exploitation. Second, animal welfare reform does not provide significant protection for animal interests. Animals are chattel property; they are economic commodities. Given this status and the reality of markets, the level of protection provided by animal welfare will generally be limited to what promotes efficient exploitation. That is, we will protect animal interests to the extent that it provides an economic benefit.

I argue that even as the war is framed in certain ways to control and heighten affect in relation to the differential grievability of lives, so war has come to frame ways of thinking multiculturalism and debates on sexual freedom, issues largely considered separate from "foreign affairs.

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

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

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.

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.