Quotes about Nonviolence
Raise your thoughts, not your fists.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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