Quotes about non-violence

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

In the use of force, one simplifies the situation by assuming that the evil to be overcome is clear-cut, definite, and irreversible. Hence there remains but one thing: to eliminate it. Any dialogue with the sinner, any question of the irreversibility of his act, only means faltering and failure. Failure to eliminate evil is itself a defeat. Anything that even remotely risks such defeat is in itself capitulation to evil. The irreversibility of evil then reaches out to contaminate even the toleran

When I feel angry, I want to say something mean, or yell, or hit. But feeling like I want to is not the same as doing it. Feeling can't hurt anyone or get me into trouble, but doing can." (Bunny from picture book)

The path of nonviolence is the path of respect. It is respect towards every being. It is the path of awakening the consciousness of every being.

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

...if we do not know how to defend ourselves, our women and our places of worship by force of suffering, i.e., nonviolence, we must, if we are men, be at least able to defend all these by fighting." (MLK)"...If given a choice between violent resistance and passive acceptance, King and Gandhi both accepted violence..." "...like violence, it [non-violent resistance] was aggressive, but it was spiritually, bot physically, so." "...At the same time the mind and the emotions are active, actively tryi

Another site of Leftist struggle [other than Detroit] that has parallels to New Orleans: Palestine. From the central role of displacement to the ways in which culture and community serve as tools of resistance, there are illuminating comparisons to be made between these two otherwise very different places.In the New Orleans Black community, death is commemorated as a public ritual (it's often an occasion for a street party), and the deceased are often also memorialized on t-shirts featuring thei

Peace is a deeper reality than violence."p. 231

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped out. p. 22

There is no such thing as a "just" war. It's just war. And it's antithetical to the Gospel.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in the smoke of confabulation. There can be no peace on earth without the kind of inner change that brings man back to his "right mind." p. 31

There's plenty of food, other than non-vegetarian, here, on this earth. So, don't hurt, kill and eat animals to increase your girth

Do your thing, without harming anything.

Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace.

Nonviolence is kindling light of love into the dark places and budding trust from the threshold of hopelessness.

Nonviolence is a way of life, where the task is to awaken the underlying goodness of every human being.

The world we have created, has problems, that can not be resolved by rich getting richer but by sharing we can over come the problems" Dr. Ron Harris - 2008

most Americans think of Rosa Parks as a demur, pleasant-enough seamstress who backed into history by being too tired to get out of her seat on a bus one day, in reality she had been trained in nonviolence spirit and tactics at a famous institution, Highlander Folk School. It seems to be a difficult concept for most of us that peace is a skill that can be learned. We know war can be learned, but we seem to think that one becomes a peacemaker by a mere change of heart. (23)

Live simply so others may simply live

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.

We are killing, every one of us, every moment of the day - just by living. And if one realizes this, is this very realization itself not a conscious consent to murder? If a truly circumspect Jain was truly serious about not killing anything, wouldn't his only recourse be to kill himself?

Those who have chosen to provide for the health and well being of others. Call them homoeopaths, allopaths and whatever one may, they must remember, they have been called and have chosen to serve. Dr. Ron Harris - 1965

The world we have created has problems, that can be resolved by rich getting richer, bu by sharing we can. Ron Harris - 2008

Non-violence is more powerful than violence. Nature eliminates violent animals bit by bit.

We can make this a more peaceful century if we cherish non-violence and concern for others’ well-being.

The era of revolution by military means produced a greater degree of desperation and frustration. This was brought to an end by the people.

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.

When I say that we must establish values with originate in sisterhood, I mean to say that we must not accept, even for a moment, male notions of what non-violence is. These notions have never condemned the systematic violence against us. The men who hold these notions have never renounced the male behaviours, privileges, values and conceits which are in and of themselves acts of violence against us.