30 Quotes Tagged: nonviolence

First, the line of progress is never straight. For a period a movement may follow a straight line and then it encounters obstacles and the path bends. It is like curving around a mountain when you are approaching a city. Often if feels as though you were moving backwards, and you lose sight of your goal: but in fact you are moving ahead, and soon you will see the city again, closer by.

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.

Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just — and God is with us.

Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

I might be ready to embrace a snake, but, if one comes to bite you, I should kill it and protect you.

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

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.

Kill not, cause no pain. Nonviolence is the greatest religion.

Of all weapons, love is the most deadly and devastating, and few there be who dare trust their fate in its hands.

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.