Non Violence Quotes - Page 4

• Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Hate, Light

  "A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings".

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• Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.

  Cesar Chavez

  Hands, People, Want

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• Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.

  Arundhati Roy

  Tactics, Violence, Victim

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

  Alan Paton

  Men, Killing Each Other, Violence

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.

  John Lewis

  Philosophy, Optimistic, People

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• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Peace, Kings

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Peace, Heart

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• Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Mean, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1941). “The Indian States' Problem”

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• That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Looks, Opponents, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Science, Atoms, Bombs

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Essence, Violence, Belief

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.38, New Directions Publishing

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• Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, Adversity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Message of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hatred, Violence, Overcoming

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.46, New Directions Publishing

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• However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  May, Opponents, Violence

  Young India, 11 Dec. 1924

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• In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

  Cesar Chavez

  Violence, Cases, Militancy

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• There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

  Sam Peckinpah

  War, Violence, Break Out

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

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• Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Racism, Gun Control

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book by George Breitman (p. 22), 1965.

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• I and some colleagues came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be wrong and unrealistic for African leaders to continue preaching peace and non-violence at a time when the government met our peaceful demands with force. It was only when all else had failed, when all channels of peaceful protest had been barred to us, that the decision was made to embark on violent forms of political struggle.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Struggle, Government

  Nelson Mandela (1990). “One nation, one country”

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• Truth, Peace and Non-violence form the central tenets of the 'Idea of India'!

  Narendra Modi

  Ideas, India, Violence

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• Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doe, World, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

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• Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Two, Violence, Conflict

  Jiddu Krishnamurti's 5th public talk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 30, 1967.

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• In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Violence, Possibility

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.71, Rajpal & Sons

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• I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the strongest. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Men, Soldier

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (2010). “Wof : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”, p.30, Penguin Books India

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• Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the vicious cycles of violence, it requires a willing acceptance of suffering and death rather than inflicting suffering or death on anyone else.

  John Dear

  Acceptance, Order, Suffering And Death

  John Dear (2009). “Living Peace: A Spirituality of Contemplation and Action”, p.82, Image

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