Alice Walker Quotes

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.

Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.

Refraining from violence is not a sign of weakness in one's faith but a sign that one's faith is unshakeable

And peace unweaponed conquers every wrong!

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa.

My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.

Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Nonviolence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be nonviolent

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody would like to reach his objectives peacefully. But I'm also a realist. The only people in this country who are asked to be nonviolent are black people.

A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.

Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.

True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything does from disuse.

Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.