nonviolent Quotes

America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.

Voting is the most powerful nonviolent tool that we have.

I don't have beef with nobody.

I was involved in some peaceful protests.

I ain't got no bad blood with nobody.

I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.

The real hippie is trying to create something inclusive, something holistic, something loving and healthy which isn't in perpetual conflict with authority and actually knows that the only way to disarm the entire game is to step aside and not take any sides.

Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.

I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]

I don't want revolution in my country. The only way to change Russia without blood is evolution.

No, thank you," said Adrian. "These hands don't sully themselves with fighting.

God is the shield of the nonviolent.

The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.

I think if we can be totally nonviolent within our own self, because we are part of the web of life, we will restore cosmic harmony.

I have no weapon but nonviolence.

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

My own view is that violence is a part of classical Haida literature - and of every mythology everywhere, so far as I can tell - because it's part of life itself. In the world of the hamburger stand and the supermarket, or the vegan café and the ashram, you might try to tell yourself it's possible to be nonviolent. In a hunting and gathering society, violence is more difficult to hide.

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil.

We are a peace-loving people.

The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.