Non Violence Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• The values a man must cherish as his life-breath are: Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non violence.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Men, Violence, Cherish

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• Of these five vital principles, Love is the foremost. It is Love that flows as the under-current for the other four values. How does it flow this way? When Love is associated with our thoughts, it manifests itself as Truth. When Love is associated with feelings, it produces Peace. When Love animates actions, it results in Right Action. When Love is combined with understanding it becomes Non-violence. Therefore whenever you feel angry, think of love, develop thoughts of love in your heart. You will have peace.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Heart, Love Is, Thinking

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• The sincere effort to accept and promote the human values - Truth, Right Conduct, Peace, Non-Violence and Love. These five values are a essential for a full and worthwhile life as the five vital airs or pranas mentioned in the scriptures.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Air, Effort, Scripture

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• Practise any one of the human values. Prema (love) is the basis for all the values. Action with love is right conduct. Speak with love and it becomes truth. Thinking with love results in peace. Understanding with love leads to non-violence. For everything love is primary. Where there is love there is no place for hatred.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love Is, Thinking, Hatred

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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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• Doctors should recognise the importance of the five human values; Truth, righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-violence. Love is the basis for all the other values. Doctors can infuse courage in patients by the love they show towards the patients. If doctors carry out their duties with love they will be crowned with success.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love Is, Doctors, Violence

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Men, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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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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• Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Violence, Mankind

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

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• If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, Village, Want

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.384, Rajpal & Sons

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• I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. This is a mistaken way of understanding non-violence.

  Judith Butler

  War, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

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• I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.

  Raj Thackeray

  Intelligent, Violence, Language

  Source: www.scribd.com

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