(65 quotes found)
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Dr. King was one of my heroes. The method of nonviolence is what I admired about him most of all.”
John Capozzi
“Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic”
“The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind”
“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.”
“Non-violence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.”
“A weak man is just an accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.”
“Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.”
“Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.”
“I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the strongest. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.”
