Non Violence Quotes - Page 5

• War traumatizes soldier and civilian alike; warfare is a profit-making racket; warfare resolves nothing that negotiations can't resolve better; the weapons we have now make non-violence the only option to planetary annihilation.

  Madeline Taylor

  War, Soldier, Weapons

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• Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex."

  Dick Cavett

  Sex, People, Police

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• If somebody's in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out.

  Ron Paul

  Drug, Violence, Prison

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• Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are

  Jonathon Porritt

  Future, Rights, Vision

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• Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.

  Daniel Webster

  Thank God, Age, Bayonets

  Daniel Webster (1843). “An Address Delivered at the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843”, p.68

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• How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?

  Adin Ballou

  Religious, War, Men

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• Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Hurt, Brutality

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• It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence . . . and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.

  Manitonquat

  Peace, Love Is, Ubuntu

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• ...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence takes more guts, if I can put it bluntly, than violence. Most violent acts are accomplished by getting the opponent off guard, and it doesn't take that much character, I think, if one wants to do it.

  Cesar Chavez

  Character, Mean, Thinking

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• In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means.

  Cesar Chavez

  Mean, Violence, Causes

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• The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Humanity, Doe

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• An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Winning, Opportunity

  Mahatma Gandhi (194?). “Gandhi's Wisdom Box”

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• We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause...If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence. Then you are no longer a master of your own struggle.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Powerful, War

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• There's no reason to be non-violent. There's no challenge unless you are living for people.

  Cesar Chavez

  People, Challenges, Reason

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• I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.

  Mamata Banerjee

  Running, Philosophy, Party

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• The essence of God is consciousness. Consciousness can be used for either violence or peace; the choice is ours. When it is expanded, human consciousness chooses non-violence, since that is compatible with love.

  Deepak Chopra

  Essence, Choices, Violence

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• Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Punishment, Ornaments, Violence

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• The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, War, Simple

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• He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Trust, Men, World

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• It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

  Christopher Hampton

  Faces, Violence, Ethics

  Christopher Hampton (1976). “Treats: A Play”, Samuel French

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• Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

  H. G. Wells

  Vegetables, Kingdoms, Violence

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• I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends up creating many more problems for the negro community than it solved. We can through violence burn down a building, but you can't establish justice. You can murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder through violence. You can murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. And what we're trying to get rid of is hate, injustice, and all of these other things that continue the long night of man's inhumanity to man.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Night, Men

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• Love as Thought is Truth.
  Love as Action is Right Conduct.
  Love as Understanding is Peace.
  Love as Feeling is Non-violence.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love, Peace, Understanding

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from May 15, 2016

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• Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

  Andrew Young

  Violence, Efficient

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• In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Heart, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.89, New Directions Publishing

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