Violence Quotes - Page 48

Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness

When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.

That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.

The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.

We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.

My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight.

For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.

Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.

Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.

I have no weapon but nonviolence.

Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.

The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.

Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.

If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.