Quotes: Nonviolence

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

That’s all nonviolence is – organized love.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not.

In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.