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  • We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.

    "Gandhi on Non-Violence".
  • It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.51, New Directions Publishing
  • I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.

    Order   India   Arms  
    Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.53, Courier Corporation
  • Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

  • There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

    Peace   War   Ubuntu  
    Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967
  • Poverty is the worst form of violence.

  • Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

    Peace   War   Ubuntu  
  • It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

    Peace   Truth   Yoga  
  • Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

    Peace   Jogging   Lasts  
    Defense against charge of sedition, Shahi Bag, India, 18 Mar. 1922
  • An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

    Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.88, New Directions Publishing
  • The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

    Peace   Kings   Evil  
    "Where do we go from here: Chaos or community?". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967.
  • Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

    Peace   Freedom   Hate  
    Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”
  • Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.

    Peace   War   Hard Work  
  • Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

    Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962
  • The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy... In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

    Stars   Kings   Hate  
    "Where do we go from here: Chaos or community?". Book by Martin Luther King Jr., 1967.
  • Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

    Peace   Anger   Pride  
  • Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

    Kings   Stars   Hate  
    "Where do we go from here: Chaos or community?". Book by Martin Luther King, 1967.
  • When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

  • Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

    Life   Peace   Heart  
  • Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

    Love   Peace   Kings  
    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.115, Beacon Press
  • The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

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

    Peace   Truth   Violence  
    Surendra Varmā, Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Metaphysical Foundation of Mahatma Gandhi's Thought”
  • The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

    Peace   Kings   Fear  
    "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?". Book by Martin Luther King Jr., 1967.
  • Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  • People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

  • The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

    Peace   Truth   Doe  
  • An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

    Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.72, A&C Black
  • Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

    Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.99, A&C Black
  • 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.

    Peace   Heart   Being Sad  
    1926 War or Peace,'Young India'.
  • Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.54, Courier Corporation
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