Dwight L. Moody Quotes

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life

Guns make me very nervous. They're dangerous. I'm more of a pacifist than anyone could imagine.

I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man.

If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.

Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer.

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

My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.

I'm basically a pacifist.

Violence isn't really my thing.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

It is better to be killed than to kill.

I am prepared to die but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

The best soldiers are not warlike

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

I am absolutely against any violence.

Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence. Also, I think that if you use the wrong means, the ends themselves get distorted.

Nonviolence requires great patience.

Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of peace will beget not peace, but further death and destruction, the very violence the pacifists seek to avoid.

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.

Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.