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The most efficient action, the most significant testimony to nonviolence, is living a life in which there is no violence-showing that such a life is possible, and even not more difficult than a life of gain, nor more unpleasant than a life of pleasure, nor less natural than an 'ordinary' life.
My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.
Nonviolent Peaceforce ... is building a large-scale professional force of well-trained unarmed peacekeepers ... This nonviolent peacekeeping provides an alternative to which we may say YES when we say NO to war.
A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.
Nonviolence first changes the individual.
Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed.
Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.
What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?
I have no weapon but nonviolence.
Nonviolence is the way to listen to the inner voice.
Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.
Nonviolence is something very powerful, and the power behind it is not weapons, but the support of the people.
Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.
The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that confronted generations in the past. It is not a medicine or a solution so much as a healing process. It is the active spiritual immune system of humanity.
Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.
True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.
Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.
Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.
Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.
My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.
Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.
It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.
Nonviolence isn't sitting back with your arms folded.
It is first recognizing that the very person who is your oppressor is also your brother or sister. One day he or she may stop being your oppressor, but they'll never stop being your brother or sister. (Jose Maria Pires, p. 225)
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.
essence of nonviolence was a refusal to retaliate against evil, a refusal based on the realization that "the law of retaliation is the law of the multiplication of evil.
Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.
Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.
I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.
There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.
Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.
Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.
Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.
Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.
Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.
Peaceful Warrior
For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.
Be nonviolent only with those who are nonviolent to you. And when you can bring me a nonviolent racist, bring me a nonviolent segregationist, then I'll get nonviolent. But don't teach me to be nonviolent until you teach some of those crackers to be nonviolent.
Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.
Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.
The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.
Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.
There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.
If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.
Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.
The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation.
Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.
If anything I consider myself non-violent, I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.
Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.
At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.
I believe in nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living.
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.
All my adult life I have deplored violence and war as instruments for achieving solutions to mankind's problems. I am firmly committed to the creative power of nonviolence as the force which is capable of winning lasting and meaningful brotherhood and peace.
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.
The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.
DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
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
Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.
Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
To practice nonviolence, first of all we must learn to deal peacefully with ourselves.
Nonviolence is impossible without humility.
Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.
The principles of Nonviolent Communication taught by Dr. Rosenberg are instrumental in creating an extraordinary and fulfilling quality of life. His compassionate and inspiring message cuts right to the heart of successful communication.
When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.
Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.
In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action.
A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.
Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.
Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best
Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.
The ultimate way to solve human problems is with nonviolence.
Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.
Defiance through compliance.
The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform which stands a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works. Give man a decent place to stand.
Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.
The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.
Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.
You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.
Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger ... Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.
If a house is burning, and bucket of water is thrown on the blaze and doesn't extinguish the fire, this doesn't mean that water won't put out fire. It means we need more water. And so with nonviolence.
It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'
Anarchy! Revolution, Justice, Screaming For Solutions, Forcing Changes, Risk, and Danger, Making Noise and Making Pleas!.
I must warn you against the impression that mine is the final word on nonviolence. All I claim is that every experiment of mine has deepened my faith in nonviolence as the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it.
Violence requires few ideas, but nonviolence requires imagination.
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.
My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.
Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.
If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
A dog can bite you but you must not bite the dog! Your every movement in life must be peaceful; otherwise you lose your ethical superiority! Nonviolent civil disobedience is a genius; no power can beat it; use it when necessary!
The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.
If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.