Nonviolence Quotes - Page 18

• Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Fighting, People

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• There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed fourteen hundred years ago by the Prophet all the time he was in Mecca.

  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

  Years, Mecca, Prophet

  "A Man to Match His Mountains: Badshah Khan, Nonviolent Soldier of Islam". Book by Eknath Easwaran, 1984.

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Mean, Knowing

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gita: The Mother”, Lahore, India : Indian Printing Works

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• Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Weapons, Evolution

  Mahatma Gandhi (1960). “Congress and Its Future”

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• I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the world.

  Joan Baez

  Peace, Suffering, Sorrow

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• God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.

  Marianne Williamson

  Peace, People, Energy

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.18, Random House

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Feels, Smallest, Tall

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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• In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Destiny, Men, Shapes

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.173, Oxford University Press

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• I thought I was going to die a few times. On the Freedom Ride in the year 1961, when I was beaten at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, I thought I was going to die. On March 7th, 1965, when I was hit in the head with a night stick by a State Trooper at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I thought I was going to die. I thought I saw death, but nothing can make me question the philosophy of nonviolence.

  John Lewis

  Philosophy, Night, Bridges

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• We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise in denial - denial of God and her nonviolence towards us, denial of love of neighbor, denial of laws essential to our being.

  Philip Berrigan

  Christian, Real, Mean

  "Fighting the Lamb's War: Skirmishes with the American Empire". Book by Philip Berrigan, p. 204, 1996.

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• Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Perfect, Anarchy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “Volume of prefaces”

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• Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Deeds

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Principles, World

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving Up, Truth, Two

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• The most efficient action, the most significant testimony to nonviolence, is living a life in which there is no violence-showing that such a life is possible, and even not more difficult than a life of gain, nor more unpleasant than a life of pleasure, nor less natural than an 'ordinary' life.

  Lanza del Vasto

  Peace, Ordinary, Gains

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• The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and positive significance in the life of the country ... That this many young people could assemble so peaceably and with such good humor in a mile-square area ... speaks volumes about their dedication to the ideal of respect for the dignity of the individual ... In a nation beset with a crescendo of violence, this is a vibrantly hopeful sign. If violence is infectious, so, happily, is nonviolence.

  Michael Lang

  Country, Art, Dedication

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• At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Acting, Force

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.314, Grove Press

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• Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Weather, Missions, Pursue

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• The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Saint

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.158, Tara Publishing

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• A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Envy, Occupation, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Order, Weakness, Underestimated

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Years, Unbroken, Fifty

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.87, A&C Black

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• The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Becoming, Teach, Strongest

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

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• Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Acting, Circumstances

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

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• The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Path, Violence, Nations

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.159, Rajpal & Sons

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