Nonviolence Quotes - Page 10

• Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Soldier

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• Instead of scrambling for security in national victory and domination, in preparation for war and military aggression, we must relearn the values of cooperation and sharing, of nonviolence and support.

  Marva Dawn

  Peace, Military, War

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• I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Hands, Wife

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.340, Grove Press

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• Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say, "Punish me, if you will; I do not deserve it, but I will accept it, so that the world will know I am right and you are wrong," then you wield a powerful and a just weapon. This man, your oppressor, is automatically morally defeated, and if he has any conscience, he is ashamed.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, Men, Long

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Long, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.56, Oxford University Press

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• We cherish the conventional story of Dr. King and nonviolence, in fact, precisely because that narrative demands so little of us…This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened.

  Timothy B. Tyson

  Kings, Moving, Demand

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• I myself would go for nonviolence if it was consistent, if everybody was going to be nonviolent all the time. I'd say, okay, let's get with it, we'll all be nonviolent. But I don't go along with any kind of nonviolence unless everybody's going to be nonviolent. If they make the Ku Klux Klan nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. If they make the White Citizens Council nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. But as long as you've got somebody else not being nonviolent, I don't want anybody coming to me talking any nonviolent talk.

  Malcolm X

  Ku Klux Klan, White, Talking

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• Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Independence, Ends

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• Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Violence, Heat

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• Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

  Julia Bacha

  Two, Different, Violence

  "Focus on the good news in the Palestinian-Israeli standoff" by Julia Bacha, www.cnn.com. September 18, 2011.

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• Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Negative, Satya

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• Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Facts

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• It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Difficult, Dies

  Mahatma Gandhi (1943). “He Follows Christ”

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• The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Islam

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.122, Rajpal & Sons

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• The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Principles, Done

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• Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Enemy, Able, Persons

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• Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Suffering, Conscious

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.79, Rajpal & Sons

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• Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Growth, Plant, Grows

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• As far as nonviolence and Spiritual Activism, Marshall Rosenberg is it! Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, is essential reading for anyone who wants to improve their communication skills. Applying the concepts within the book will help guide the reader towards a more loving, compassionate, and nonviolent way of understanding and functioning with others, and foster more compassion in the world. I highly recommend this book.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Book, Communication

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• This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Mother, Philosophy, I Have Learned

  Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence resistance campaigns, the resulting videos would reverberate around the world and Palestine would achieve statehood and freedom.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  People, Style, Campaigns

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• The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.

  Joan Baez

  Strong

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Dear Ones, Leaving

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• As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this is a false issue, for the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Home, Self, Expression

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• Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Demand, May, Matter

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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