Nonviolence Quotes

Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.

God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.

If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.

The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.

Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.

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

Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.

For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.

It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.

Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.

A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.

My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.

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

Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.

Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.

Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.

My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it.

Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people; this is a kind of nonviolence.

The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.

Nonviolence requires great patience.

Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.

Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

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

Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.

The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.

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

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.