Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.
The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.
Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.
A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.
Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in selfsuffering.
We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.
Violence is the weapon of the weak.
Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.
Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.
We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.
Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.
Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God.
Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.
Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.
Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.
Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.
Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.
My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there is a world of difference. Gandhi resisted evil with as much vigor and power as the violent resister, but True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to evil power. It is rather a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love. . . .
Non-violence is a very powerful weapon. Most people don't understand the power of non-violence and tend to be amazed by the whole idea. Those who have been involved in bringing about change and see the difference between violence and non-violence are firmly committed to a lifetime of non-violence, not because it is easy or because it is cowardly, but because it is an effective and very powerful way.
I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to my job by asking myself the question whenever we're confronted with a situation where some may be arguing for military action: Will this actually result in America being safer, or the most lives being saved?
The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.
Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is Khadi, a unique article of commerce which will not, cannot, succeed on terms common to other articles.
