Nonviolence Quotes - Page 15

• An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Independent, Rely Upon, People

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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 nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Training, Dying

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

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• A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Rabbits, Bulls

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fall, Arms, Schemes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Age, Apostles

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.160, A&C Black

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• The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Warrior, Active, Incessantly

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance”

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• Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Negative Words, Effort

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “Panchayat Raj”

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• All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Together, Earth, Position

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

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• We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Liberty, Kingdoms, Dare

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• Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Training, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.131, Rajpal & Sons

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• To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Practice, Matter, Mundane

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.88, Hackett Publishing

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• Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Home, Staying

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.130, Rajpal & Sons

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• That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Use, Individual, Term

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.102, Penguin Books India

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• Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Exercise, World, Demand

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• Martin Luther King really was a safety valve for white people. Any time it appeared that the black community was on the verge of really doing what we ought to do based on having been attacked, they put Martin Luther King on television. He was always saying, "We must use nonviolence. We must overcome hate with love." White people loved that. That's why they gave him a Nobel Prize. But when Martin Luther King started condemning the Vietnam War, that's when white people turned against him.

  Ernie Chambers

  Hate, War, People

  "The Maverick of Omaha". Interview With Michael Beckel, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2006.

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• I thought I was going to die a few times. On the Freedom Ride in the year 1961, when I was beaten at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, I thought I was going to die. On March 7th, 1965, when I was hit in the head with a night stick by a State Trooper at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I thought I was going to die. I thought I saw death, but nothing can make me question the philosophy of nonviolence.

  John Lewis

  Philosophy, Night, Bridges

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• We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise in denial - denial of God and her nonviolence towards us, denial of love of neighbor, denial of laws essential to our being.

  Philip Berrigan

  Christian, Real, Mean

  "Fighting the Lamb's War: Skirmishes with the American Empire". Book by Philip Berrigan, p. 204, 1996.

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• Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Fighting, People

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• I will repeat again that females are the symbols of nonviolence. Another thing I would say is that a female is more compromising. A female can talk with anyone easily.

  Yingluck Shinawatra

  Female, Compromise, Symbols

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• But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Oppressed, Oppressors

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

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• nonviolence first changes the individual.

  Coretta Scott King

  Firsts, Individual

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• Much as being active in the antislavery movement of the last century involved more than not engaging in slavery oneself, so joining in an antiviolence movement has to go beyond opting for nonviolence in one's personal life. It calls for engaging in imaginative and forceful practices of nonviolent resistance to violence, including taking a stand toward entertainment violence.

  Sissela Bok

  Joining In, Practice, Movement

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• Nonviolent actions are by their nature androgynous. In them the two impulses that have long been treated as distinct, 'masculine' and 'feminine,' the impulse of self-assertion and the impulse of sympathy, are clearly joined; the very genius of nonviolence, in fact, is that it demonstrates them to be indivisible, and so restores human community.

  Barbara Deming

  Self, Masculine And Feminine, Two

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• From a magical point of view, the term 'nonviolence' doesn't work well. Every beginning Witch learns that you can't cast a spell for what you don't want - that the deep aspects of our minds are unclear on the concept of 'no.' If you tell your dog, 'Rover, I can't take you for a walk,' Rover hears 'Walk!' and runs for the door. If we say 'nonviolence,' we are still thinking in terms of violence.

  Starhawk

  Running, Dog, Thinking

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• If a house is burning, and bucket of water is thrown on the blaze and doesn't extinguish the fire, this doesn't mean that water won't put out fire. It means we need more water. And so with nonviolence.

  Dorothy Cotton

  Mean, Fire, Water

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