No Violence Quotes

For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.

The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?

The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.

When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.

Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence.

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

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.

Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.

If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.

The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.

Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

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

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood the Bible.

He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust.

A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.

That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice.

I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

I voice my opinions on social media and I have people threatening me with violence. It is troubling but I can fight back, which is good.

Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.

I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.

But violence is news, to a certain extent, and people don't want complicated news. Because as soon as you realize things are complicated, your life becomes more complicated.

Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.

I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.

Violence in any form is a tragic expression of our unmet needs.

Anger, depression, guilt, and shame are the product of the thinking that is at the base of violence on our planet.

The violence and double-talk in the Alice books probably does no harm to children, but the novels should not be allowed to circulate indiscriminately among adults who are undergoing analysis.

I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence.

The United States is the largest exporter of violence in the world

I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence

Violence is not the way.

The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence.

It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence.

I'm trying not to let the anger and the violence that erupt take over my life. I guess it comes with the growing process, I don't know. A little mellowing.

Violence stops thought. Hence its popularity as a pain-killer.

The older I get, the more I can't stand violence and have a hard time with seeing people die in horrific ways. It gets harder and harder to watch and deal with that stuff.

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.

In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

If you push me, I'll shove, I'm masculine. When she wants to play rough, I'm masculine.

Violence among boys is so valorized and so encouraged that you have to do things different in violence prevention with boys than with girls.

Girls begin to have second thoughts about the violence. Studies show they feel a considerable amount of guilt about it. They feel bad later and want to apologize.

Little minds try to solve the matters through violence and darkness; great minds try to solve the matters through love and light!