Non-Violent Means Quotes

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future. But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education.

Politics is a substitute for violence.

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.

It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. God alone knows absolute truth. Therefore, I have often said, Truth is God. It follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

I've always honestly and openly said I believe in a united Ireland, but the point was to try and get to a united Ireland without the violence.

No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion I am willing to try any means that invades no other's right, even though I have little hope in it.

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: search after Truth through non-violent means. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth.

How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.