Quotes about Nonviolence
Unarmed love is the most powerful force in all the world.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love.
- Mahatma Gandhi
We must follow nonviolence and love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.
- Mahatma Gandhi
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
- George Washington
Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of what it means to be a disciple to Jesus.
- Stanley Hauerwas
Do nothing unto anyone that you would not like to have done unto yourself. Seek peace, and never be the aggressor—but if anyone attacks you, we do not teach you to turn the other cheek.
- Malcolm X
The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.
- Mahatma Gandhi
If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.
- Mahatma Gandhi