Quotes about Nonviolence
Violence begins with the fork.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.
- Mahatma Gandhi
A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.
- Mahatma Gandhi
We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi
God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.
- Marianne Williamson
I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.