Nonviolence Quotes - Page 7

• Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Facts

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Violence, Results

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Passion, Creeds

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.115, Penguin Books India

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• Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Army, Sacrifice, Fire

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Coward, Together, Ill

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.97, A&C Black

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• Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Growth, Plant, Grows

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Suffering, Conscious

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.79, Rajpal & Sons

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Perfect, Democracy

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Principles, Done

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• Part of the reason I embrace nonviolence is that it's the most effective thing we can do. It's a more advanced tactic than violence. If people who engage in violence want to escalate their tactics, they would escalate to nonviolence.

  Tim DeChristopher

  People, Tactics, Want

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Islam

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.122, Rajpal & Sons

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• Gandhi was such an important figure to the pacifists of the '30s, and he was such an extraordinary embodiment of nonviolence, that I thought it was necessary to have him in there. When he would say something about the war, it was to some extent news - and he was sure to have a response that was different from that of other world leaders.

  Nicholson Baker

  War, Other Worlds, Leader

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Difficult, Dies

  Mahatma Gandhi (1943). “He Follows Christ”

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• Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faces, Force, Hostile

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.312, Grove Press

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• Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Men, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.148, A&C Black

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• A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Rabbits, Bulls

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• What crystallized the importance of speaking out like that - of making nonviolence not just a tool or a tactic, but a way of life - was in San Diego [at Comic-Con]. One of the young girls who marched with us was wearing a hijab, and she came up to me afterward because I talked about my beard, and I talked about why I was doing it, and she came up and she gave me a hug, and she was crying. And she said, "Thank you. You have no idea how the other students treat me because they're shown that this is OK by Donald Trump. Thank you for speaking out."

  Andrew Aydin

  Girl, Ideas, Hug

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Destiny, India, Messages

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• India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Unbroken, Tradition

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.342, Rajpal & Sons

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• Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Being Me, Glory

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• My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Roots, Life Is

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.101, A&C Black

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• To build a mass movement, nonviolence is indispensable.

  Vijay Prashad

  Movement, Mass, Indispensable

  "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

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• Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Way, Almighty

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Way, Truth Is

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.76, A&C Black

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• The cross to me is complete nonviolence because Jesus said, "Love your enemy. Do not kill." I realized that I could never kill anyone or hurt anyone, but I was committed to trying to bring about social and political and economic change.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Hurt, Jesus, Love You

  Source: www.progressive.org

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