Nonviolence Quotes Quotes

“Your blessings are very important to melt down the stony hearts.”
― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

“Nonviolence aims at doing no harm to living being. Compassion aims at doing good to all being.”
― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

“Compassion stands on the pillars of trust, love, awareness and detachment.”
― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

“Let everyone evolve fast and understand humanity. Let the heart of stones be converted into heart of love.”
― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

“Compassion means removal of suffering – suffering of the self and the others.”
― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

“But I am also concerned about our moral uprightness and the health of our souls. Therefore I must oppose any attempt to gain our freedom by the methods of malice, hate, and violence that have characterized our oppressors. Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Many of our inner conflicts are rooted in hate. This is why psychiatrists say, “Love or perish.” Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Non-violence is more powerful than violence. Nature eliminates violent animals bit by bit.”
― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

“Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“The time had come- indeed it was past due- when I had to disavow and dissociate myself from those who in the name of peace burn, maim, and kill.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“In a democracy, when the traffic light is red for freedoms, don’t ever stop, don’t ever wait! Refuse the red light, ignore it, break the rules and move forward! It is always legitimate to challenge fascism for every nation in the world as long as this challenge is nonviolent! Because violence means using the same vulgar, the same evil methods of fascism! Don’t behave like a dog when fighting against a dog!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“After the riot in Chicago that Summer, I was greatly discouraged. But we had trained a group of about two thousand disciplined devotees of nonviolence who were willing to take blows without retaliation. We started out engaging in constitutional privileges, marching before real estate offices in all-white communities. And that nonviolent , disciplined, determined force created such a crisis in the city of Chicago that the city had to do something to change conditions. We didn’t have any Molotov cocktails, we didn’t have any bricks, we didn’t have guns, we just had the power of our bodies and our souls. There was power there, and it was demonstrated once more.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I am convinced that even violent temperaments can be channeled through nonviolent discipline, if they can act constructively and express through an effective channel their very legitimate anger.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The question was not whether one should use his gun when his home was attacked, but whether it was tactically wise to use a gun while participating in an organized demonstration. If they lowered the banner of nonviolence, I said, Mississippi injustice would not be exposed and the moral issues would be obscured.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It is simply my way of saying that I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity. Occasionally in life one develops a conviction so precious and meaningful that he will stand on it till the end. That is what I have found in nonviolence.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

“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.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

“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.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament

“If there is real non-violence in us, there can be no war in the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“If you do not know the meaning of affection, you will be affected”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Though violence holds the handle of the sword, nonviolence will hold the handle of the justice”
― Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Nonviolence and peace are like the two parallel straight lines though can't meet each other can travel together to reach your destination”
― Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Violence is in every part of India and violence is in every part of an Indian body; Indian films are the evidence of the evilest experiments against peace, nonviolence, and humanity”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“STAY A LEGEND, BE A LEGEND YET DON'T UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF NONVIOLENCE”
― J. Ruby

“NONVIOLENCE IS ONE AMONG THE GREAT GUNS”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“LOVE IS ONE AMONG THE GREATEST GUNS;
FAILURE IS ONE AMONG THE GREATEST GUNS;
NONVIOLENCE IS ONE AMONG THE GREATEST GUNS;
LAW IS ONE AMONG THE GREATEST GUNS;
TRUTH IS ONE AMONG THE GREATEST GUNS;
EDUCATION IS ONE AMONG THE GREATEST GUNS”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“WHEN YOU BUILD IN NONVIOLENCE, THEY WON'T KNOW HOW TO ATTACK.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“YOU CANNOT DEFEAT YOUR ENEMY WITHOUT FIGHTING EVEN THROUGH AHIMSA.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Hitting you is not my goal, fucking you in the best way is my goal.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“I'm prepared to face your violence with a smile, Are you prepared to face my love with a smile?”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“As he’d said, the purpose of non-violent non-cooperation was to provoke a reaction, and it was more likely he’d be plotting his next move before he’d even had breakfast.”
― Abir Mukherjee, Smoke and Ashes