Nelson Mandela Quotes About Nonviolence

Quotes about: Nonviolence

• 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 impulses for nonviolence, justice and equality. He exposes the fallacy of the claim that everyone can be rich and successful provided they work hard. He points to the millions who work themselves to the bone and still remain hungry.

  Nelson Mandela

  Spiritual, Hard Work, Successful

  "The Sacred Warrior" by Nelson Mandela, content.time.com. December 31, 1999.

• There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Peace, Government, Talking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Peace, War

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

  Nelson Mandela

  Principles, Moral Goodness, Weapons

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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