Nonviolence Quotes - page 3

In sum, theoretical and empirical research establishes that democratic civil liberties and political rights promote nonviolence and is a path to a warless world. The clearest evidence of this is that there has never been a war between well-established democracies, while numerous wars have occurred between all other political systems;... (Rudolph Rummel)
Democratic freedom is a method of nonviolence and an antidote to war. View quote
Rudolph Rummel
Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience. View quote
Julia Bacha
So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence. View quote
Satish Kumar
Nonviolence in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering. It does not means meek submission to the will of the evil-doer, but it means the putting of one's whole soul against the will of the tyrant. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I am not pleading for India to practice nonviolence because it is weak. I want her to practice nonviolence being conscious of her strength and power. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment, forgiveness adorns a soldier. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak. The best way to weaken communalists is to yield to them. Resistance will only rouse their suspicion and strengthen their opposition. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman? View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
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. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Human kind has to get out of violence only through nonviolence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter-hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence. View quote
Joan Baez
The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation. View quote
Joan Baez
That's all nonviolence is - organized love. View quote
Joan Baez
Nonviolence is the weapon of the strong. View quote
Betty Williams
Once you follow a path of nonviolence and social justice, it won't take you long before you come into conflict with the culture, with the society. View quote
Martin Sheen
Once you follow a path of nonviolence and social justice, it won't take you long before you come into conflict with the culture, with the society. You can't know what is at stake or how much it is going to cost you until you get in the game. That's the only way, and the level of cost is equal to the level of involvement. View quote
Martin Sheen
We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier. View quote
Alice Walker
What's going on down there, Katniss? Have they all joined hands? Taken a vow of nonviolence? Tossed the weapons in the sea in defiance of the Capitol?" Finnick asks. "No," I say. "No," Finnick repeats. "Because whatever happened in the past is in the past. And no one in this arena was a victor by chance. View quote
Suzanne Collins
What's going on down there, Katniss? Have they all joined hands? Taken a vow of nonviolence? Tossed the weapons in the sea in defiance of the Capitol?" Finnick asks. "No," I say. "No," Finnick repeats. "Because whatever happened in the past is in the past. And no one in this arena was a victor by chance." He eyes Peeta for a moment. "Except maybe Peeta. (Suzanne Collins)
Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence. View quote
Coretta Scott King
I realize that violence is not more prevalent today than in previous periods of human history, but there is a difference. We have seen visionary standards adopted by the global community that espouse peace and human rights, and the globalization of information ensures that the violation of these principles of nonviolence by a powerful and admired democracy tends to resonate throughout the world community. We should have advanced much further in the realization of women's rights, given these international commitments to peace and the rule of law. View quote
Jimmy Carter
If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone. View quote
Cesar Chavez
The Christian does not decide between violence and nonviolence, evil and good. He decides between the less and the greater evil. View quote
James Hal Cone