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  • We can make this a more peaceful century if we cherish non-violence and concern for others’ well-being. It is possible. If the individual is happier, his or her family is happier; if families are happy, neighborhoods and nations will be happy. By transforming ourselves we can change our human way of life and make this a century of compassion.

  • We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.

    "Gandhi on Non-Violence".
  • I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.

  • I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.

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  • It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.51, New Directions Publishing
  • 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 (1977). “Collected Works”
  • Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent. But what happens when such an attempt fail to achieve the object? It is here that soul-force has to be combined with physical force so as not to remain at the mercy of tyrannical and ruthless enemy.

    Winning   Soul   Enemy  
    The Sikh Review, Volume 55, p. 173, 2007.
  • If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

    Fall   Law   Pieces  
    Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.11, New Directions Publishing
  • Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.225, Beacon Press
  • 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.

    Mean   Thinking   Use  
    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • 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.

  • There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

    Peace   War   Ubuntu  
    Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967
  • My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

    God   Truth   Mean  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”
  • But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.

    Rights   Years   People  
    Nelson Mandela (1973). “No Easy Walk to Freedom”, p.168, Heinemann
  • In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.

    "The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt".
  • I don't belong to a church or political party or a group of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the most civilized organization in history. Its currency is the written word. Its weapon is the letter; that's why I am a member. I believe in its non-violence; I believe in its effectiveness. Its dignity and its sense of commitment. Its focus on individuals and the concentration and tenacity with which they defend those imprisoned for their ideas has earned it the cautious respect of repressive governments throughout the world.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.

    Hate   Heart   Eye  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Miscellanies”
  • If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.

    Giving   Village   Want  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.384, Rajpal & Sons
  • Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work, faith and willingness to sacrifice. We can win and keep our own self-respect and build a great union that will secure the spirit of all people if we do it through a re-dedication and re-commitment to the struggle for justice through non-violence.

  • Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

    Suicide   Moving   Atoms  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press
  • Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.

  • If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.

    Race   Way   Violence  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”
  • It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”
  • What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

    Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.79, Simon and Schuster
  • Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.97, Beacon Press
  • Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”
  • It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

    Peace   Truth   Yoga  
  • Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

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

  • Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

    Peace   Jogging   Lasts  
    Defense against charge of sedition, Shahi Bag, India, 18 Mar. 1922
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