Quotes about Nonviolence

Violence is often the instrument of those who are impatient, those who lack imagination, those who cannot wait on justice or freedom or redemption.

Limiting violence was a good place to start. Abolishing it is a good place to end.

Second-century Bible scholar Origen of Alexandria wrote, "We do not arm ourselves against any nation; we do not learn the art of war; because, through Jesus Christ, we have become the children of peace.

It is here that we see a Jesus who abhors both passivity and violence, who carves out a third way that is neither submission nor assault, neither fight nor flight. It is this third way, Wink writes, that teaches that "evil can be opposed without being mirrored . . . oppressors can be resisted without being emulated . . . enemies can be neutralized without being destroyed."7

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination. Has

The way of Jesus is not a proposal for how to take over the nation-state and make it Christian. It is, rather, a lesson in learning not to take over--to be a community where we find a new way of life by giving ourselves for others.

Andre Trocmé, who pastored the remarkable Le Chambon community during World War II, said, "Nonviolence was not a theory superimposed upon reality; it was an itinerary that we explored day after day in communal prayer and in obedience to the commands of the Spirit.

There are some things to die for but none to kill for.

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed ? but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

asked Shoto about it, he told me it was a conscious choice by the game's creators, to promote pacifism and nonviolence. "Wow," Aech said. "A nonviolent game about killing people with knives. Genius.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.