Nonviolence Quotations

For mass struggles, nonviolence is essential.

Veganism is about nonviolence: nonviolence to other sentient beings; nonviolence to yourself; nonviolence to the earth.

nonviolence first changes the individual.

Nonviolence is the weapon of the strong.

I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.

But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.

Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.

No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.

Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.

True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

Nonviolence requires great patience.

The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.

The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.

There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.

Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed.

In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.

Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.

Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.

The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.

Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.

Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.

Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.

The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.

Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.

Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.

My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.

The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.

For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.

I have no weapon but nonviolence.

I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips.

I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.

The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.

Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.

We must follow nonviolence and love.

The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.