Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-20] of 30 Non-Violence quotesNon-Violence QuotesNon-Violence Next 20 quotes I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.~ John Adams Force is not a remedy.~ John Bright There are no violent gangs fighting over aspirin territories. There are no violent gangs fighting over whisky territories or computer territories or anything else that's legal. There are only criminal gangs fighting over territories covering drugs, gambling, prostitution, and other victimless crimes. Making a non-violent activity a crime creates a black market, which attracts criminals and gangs, which turns what was once a relatively harmless activity affecting a small group of people into a widespread epidemic of drug use and gang warfare.~ Harry Browne Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.~ Indira Gandhi Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Nonviolence 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 very being.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion.~ Justice Charles Evans Hughes Put up again thy sword into its place: for all they that take the sword shall perish by the sword.~ Jesus of Nazareth A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I have a dream that one day ... the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print