Nonviolence Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Home, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Public Opinion, Creation, Born

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• The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Brave, Invasion

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• Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Civil Disobedience, Disobedience

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, People, Matter

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• Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Practice, Independence, Approach

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.165, Oxford University Press

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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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• Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Hatred, Preparation

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Collected Works”

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• The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Rights, Care, Sin

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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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• Emotional intelligence in the work that we do, in the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, is about equipping young people with the kinds of skills they need to both identify and manage their emotions, to communicate those emotions effectively, and to resolve conflict nonviolently. So it's a whole set of skills and competencies that, for us, fall under the umbrella of emotional intelligence.

  Linda Lantieri

  Fall, Emotional, Skills

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• We must follow nonviolence and love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  And Love

  "Give Us the Ballot". Speech delivered at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom (Call to Conscience) Washington, D.C., 1957.

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• Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Being Me, Glory

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• India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Unbroken, Tradition

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.342, Rajpal & Sons

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• It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Destiny, India, Messages

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• The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cities, India, Today

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Trying, Growing

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• The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Justice, Firsts

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.77, A&C Black

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