Non Violence Quotes - Page 6

• Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best

  Ela Bhatt

  Ideas, Political, Violence

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• If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fall, Law, Pieces

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.

  Amit Ray

  Compassion, Signatures, Tools

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.110, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering we say the only ethical way to consume flesh is to pick up the carcass of an animal who has died naturally or been killed accidentally, say by being hit by a car, and eat that.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Car, People

  India Together, July 2000.

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• Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.

  Herbert Read

  World, Violence, Violent

  Sir Herbert Edward Read, Herbert Read (1994). “A One-man Manifesto and Other Writings for Freedom Press”, Freedom Press (CA)

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• I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Mad, Risk

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.77, Hackett Publishing

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• Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Individual Effort, Order, Growth

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Truth, War

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives”

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• He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Cutting, Roots

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• Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Law, Violence

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• Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to do harm. As his war-strewn presidency shows, George Bush knows nothing about ahimsa and non-violence. Bush should reconsider this cynical, disrespectful display of symbolism.

  Kevin Martin

  War, Men, Symbolism

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• The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we must approach Him with a humble and contrite heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Humility, Heart

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.49, Hackett Publishing

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• It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: "We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer".

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Hate, Philosophy

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.

  Henry Clarke Wright

  Heart, Men, Tyrants

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• Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Outcomes, Violence, Belief

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.78, A&C Black

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• Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Life, Death, Art

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• Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Hate, Spring

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

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• Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Mean, Sacrifice

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• With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  True Friend, Home, Humanity

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• I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence,' because I don't believe that I am non-violent. ... Right now, I would love to kill George Bush. I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die, the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life.

  Betty Williams

  Life, Death, Children

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• When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Practice, Needs, Violence

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• I don't belong to a church or political party or a group of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the most civilized organization in history. Its currency is the written word. Its weapon is the letter; that's why I am a member. I believe in its non-violence; I believe in its effectiveness. Its dignity and its sense of commitment. Its focus on individuals and the concentration and tenacity with which they defend those imprisoned for their ideas has earned it the cautious respect of repressive governments throughout the world.

  Sting

  Party, Believe, Commitment

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

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• We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

  Joan Baez

  Foundation, Violence, Sides

  "How Sweet The Sound: An Interview With Joan Baez". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.

  Nelson Mandela

  Rights, Years, People

  Nelson Mandela (1973). “No Easy Walk to Freedom”, p.168, Heinemann

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• I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing naïve - in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King.

  Barack Obama

  Kings, Powerful, Violence

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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