Non-Violence Quotes

What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.

– James Cromwell

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

– Joan Baez

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

– Andrew Young

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

– Cesar Chavez

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

– Alexandra Paul

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

– Cesar Chavez

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

– Aung San Suu Kyi

I always say that non-violence is not the weapon of the weak. It is the weapon of the strong.

– Betty Williams

I’ve always been strongly on the side of non-violence.

– Aung San Suu Kyi

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.

– Mahatma Gandhi

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

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

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.

– Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is the essence of the entire Buddha’s teaching, and the practice of non-violence is the entire essence of the practice of Buddha dharma, Buddhist spirituality, in one’s life.

– Lobsang Tenzin

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

– Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is the article of faith.

– Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

– Mahatma Gandhi