(1647 quotes found)
“At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.”
Anatole France
“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.”
Alice Walker
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.”
“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.”
Pope John Paul II
“Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.”
Anthony Burgess
“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
