Nonviolent Quotes
Nonviolent Quote of the day
We are never angry because of what others say or do. It is our thinking that makes us angry.
We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.
In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.
We can never make anyone do anything against their will without enormous consequences.
The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
Teachers, parents and school administrators: Today's teachers can create a Planet of Peace. The communication process you will learn by reading Nonviolent Communication is the cornerstone.
Nonviolent Communication shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, without any insults, without any put-downs, without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.
We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.
Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to people even if you (or they) are angry.
This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
What all the basic religions are saying is this: Don't do anything that isn't play.
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive
Violence only attacks the body, but it is non-violence that has the power to influence the soul and reshape it towards a peaceful future.
Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.
At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides potentially world-saving opportunities which otherwise likely would not exist.
Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.
There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attributed to the human mind.
There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear either. Because each one exists to make the others’ love more beautiful.
The glorification of hatred is predicated on a foundation of fear-induced ignorance venomous to haters and those they believe they hate.
We ache with the yearningthat turns half into wholeand offer no excusesfor the beauty of our souls.
Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.
It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.
Eastward and westward storms are breaking, --great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.
In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven’s love.
Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity and engaged participation are what make it happen.
Compassion means removal of suffering – suffering of the self and the others.
Compassion stands on the pillars of trust, love, awareness and detachment.
Nonviolence aims at doing no harm to living being. Compassion aims at doing good to all being.
In an age of bombsguzzling blood, skylarks merge peacewith thought and action.
The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.