Nonviolence Quotes
If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality—that everyone should be treated the same—an ethic of care rests on the premise of nonviolence—that no one should be hurt.
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.
Veganism is not a limitation in any way; it's an expansion of your love, your commitment to nonviolence, and your belief in justice for all.
All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property
You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.
I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.
The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.
Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.
In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.
Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.
A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.
I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and life-giving for all.
Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.
Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.
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.
Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.
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.
Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.
If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?
Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.
Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.
We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.
Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.
I'm convinced nonviolence can be successful in working for positive change in our relations with other countries right now.
I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.
The more we practice nonviolence in our words, thoughts and actions the more peaceful will be our inner state.
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.
The process of nonviolence is one that takes time and those of us who've suffered, who've been persecuted over the years, would like to see things change, you know, overnight.
Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.