Non Violence Quotes - Page 7

• Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Practice, Humanity

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• If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

  Pawan Kalyan

  Believe, Violence, Kill Me

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

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• Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?

  Arundhati Roy

  Theatre, Needs, Pieces

  "Arundhati Roy: 'They are trying to keep me destabilised. Anybody who says anything is in danger'". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2011.

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• Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work, faith and willingness to sacrifice. We can win and keep our own self-respect and build a great union that will secure the spirit of all people if we do it through a re-dedication and re-commitment to the struggle for justice through non-violence.

  Cesar Chavez

  Struggle, Commitment, Hard Work

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• Bullys are the small group who should perish not by voilence, but by non violence, words not fists, thats the awnser to our problem.

  Timothy Long

  Fists, Violence, Groups

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• We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People who make that choice will know hardship and sacrifice. But if you give yourself totally to the non-violence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone. And in giving of yourself you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love.

  Cesar Chavez

  Children, Struggle, Heart

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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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• I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Philosophical, Animal, Discovery

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.94, A&C Black

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• Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Philosophical, Animal, Ill Will

  Mahatma Gandhi (1943). “The Wisdom of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Violence, Existence

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• And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Death, Peace, Tired

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.916, e-artnow

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• We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Determination, Army, Special

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.45, Beacon Press

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• It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Glimpse, Coins

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• We can make this a more peaceful century if we cherish non-violence and concern for others’ well-being. It is possible. If the individual is happier, his or her family is happier; if families are happy, neighborhoods and nations will be happy. By transforming ourselves we can change our human way of life and make this a century of compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Concern For Others, Peaceful

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• Bridges are burning all around us; bridges to responses that might have mitigated the already brutal (and just beginning) ravages of Peak Oil; bridges to reduce the likelihood of war and famine; bridges to avoid our selectively chosen suicide; bridges to change at least a part of energy infrastructure and consumption; bridges to becoming something better than we are or have been; bridges to non-violence. Those bridges are effectively gone.

  Michael Ruppert

  Suicide, War, Bridges

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• The horror of Gandhi's murder lies not in the political motives behind it or in its consequences for Indian policy or for the future of non-violence; the horror lies simply in the fact that any man could look into the face of this extraordinary person and deliberately pull a trigger.

  Mary McCarthy

  Lying, Men, Extraordinary Person

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• ...Jesus did not advocate non-violence merely as a technique for outwitting the enemy, but as a just means of opposing the enemy in such a way as to hold open the possibility of the enemy's becoming just as well. Both sides must win. We are summoned to pray for our enemies' transformation, and to respond to ill-treatment with a love that not only is godly but also, I am convinced, can only be found in God.

  Walter Wink

  Jesus, Mean, Godly

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• I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Believe, Son

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.99, A&C Black

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• I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Secret, Weapons, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.43, Hackett Publishing

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• It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hate, Violence, Ifs

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.82, A&C Black

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• Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suicide, Moving, Atoms

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

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• We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dream, Practice, Community

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth”

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• I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood the Bible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teaching, Violence, Mankind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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• Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy used to say, they are laboring under the hypnotic influence of man. If they would realize the strength of non-violence they would not consent to be called the weaker sex.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sex, Women, Sacrifice

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth”

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• My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Minorities, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.339, Rajpal & Sons

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