Non Violence Quotes - Page 9

• Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Weapons, Violence

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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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• Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Science

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.48, Crown Archetype

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• Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Giving, India

  "Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi".

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• I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Political, Violence, Moral

  "Is Aung San Suu Kyi rethinking her tactics?" by John Simpson, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2011.

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• I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

  Alexandra Paul

  Believe, Atheism, Resistance

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• Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

  Al Sharpton

  Kings, Commitment, Passive Resistance

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• I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Marriage, Spiritual, Learning

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• Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real solution to conflict and disagreement. There is no hundred percent winner, no hundred percent loser—not that way but half-and-half. That is the practical way, the only way.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Real, Mean

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• An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Law, Unjust

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.71, New Directions Publishing

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• The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth... In a world struggling in violence and dishonesty, the further development of non-violence - not only as a philosophy but as a way of life, as a force on the streets, in the market squares, outside the missile bases, inside the chemical plants and inside the war industry - becomes one of the most urgent priorities.

  Petra Kelly

  Determination, Philosophy, War

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• Citizens across the United States are now uniting in a great cause to establish a Department of Peace, seeking nothing less than the transformation of our society, to make non-violence an organizing principle, to make war archaic through creating a paradigm shift in our culture for human development, for economic and political justice and for violence control.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Creating, Justice

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• When the days become longer and there is more sunshine, the grass becomes fresh and, consequently, we feel very happy. On the other hand, in autumn, one leaf falls down and another leaf falls down. The beautiful plants become as if dead and we do not feel very happy. Why? I think it is because deep down our human nature likes construction, and does not like destruction. Naturally, every action which is destructive is against human nature. Constructiveness is the human way. Therefore, I think that in terms of basic human feeling, violence is not good. Non-violence is the only way.

  Dalai Lama

  Beautiful, Buddhist, Fall

  "Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection" by Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

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• Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. The changes in the season affect it. It has its autumn and its summer, its winter and its spring. It is, and is not, based on scriptures. It does not derive its authority from one book. Non violence has found the highest expression and application in Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Summer, Spring, Book

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• I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, War, Divine Wisdom

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• Imagine the National Guard being called against a group of peaceful people. How far can we get; how disgraceful can it become? It's the most disgraceful, the most wicked thing I've seen in all my years of organizing farm labor.

  Cesar Chavez

  Years, People, Peaceful

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• Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization.

  Cesar Chavez

  Mean, Organization, People

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• Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where people are using non-violence because they want desperately to bring about some change. Non-violence in action is a very potent force and it can't be stopped. The people who are struggling have the complete say-so. No man-made law, no human ruler, no army can destroy this. There is no way it can be destroyed... And so, if we have the capacity to endure, if we have the patience, things will change.

  Cesar Chavez

  Powerful, Struggle, Army

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• The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Yield, Limits

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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• I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence. Also, I think that if you use the wrong means, the ends themselves get distorted.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Mean, Thinking, Use

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Choices, Violence, Modern

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• Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Jesus, Suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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• In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humble, Past, Evil

  Courtroom statement, Ahmadabad, India, 23 Mar. 1922

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• Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Brave, Weapons, Shields

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