(65 quotes found)
“I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which reje”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles”
“One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.”
“Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.”
Joan Baez
“The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.”
“We must follow nonviolent principle so that later we can live happily.”
Dalai Lama
“Anger can be subdued only by forbearance and cruelty can be overcome only by nonviolence.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“Nonviolence, equanimity, contentment, austerity, charity, fame, and ill fame; all these diverse qualities in human beings arise from Me alone.”
Bhagavad Gita
