Browse 747 quotes about Nonviolence.
“Holocaust for holocaust leaves humanity in plaster cast.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Ethnic cleansing doesn’t cure ethnic cleansing,”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“In English we say:
if you want peace, prepare for war.
In Naskarian we say:
if you want peace, prepare for education.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Military is legal terrorism.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Military is Legal Terrorism
(Ceasefire Sonnet)
Any planet that confuses guns
with gallantry is a planet of apes.
Prioritizing military over education,
we only build a world full of terrorists.
Military is just legal terrorism,
To fathom this you gotta be human.
What do monkeys know of peace and love,
When guns are their emblem of patriotism!
We don't need civilian disarmament,
We need absolute universal disarmament.
Only a worldwide ban on firearms production,
Can facilitate a paradigm of peaceful coexistence.
Let's see which nation has the heart and backbone,
To legislate absolute ban on firearms manufacture!
Let's see who are the first civilized people,
Let's see which nation is the first peacemaker!
What's the point of one ceasefire,
Let's pull the plug on all war.
Let's disband all military, and siphon
those funds to housing, education and healthcare.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“What do monkeys know of peace and love, when guns are their emblem of patriotism!”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“We don't need civilian disarmament,
We need absolute universal disarmament.
Only a worldwide ban on firearms production,
Can facilitate a paradigm of peaceful coexistence.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Let's disband all military, and siphon those funds to housing, education and healthcare.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“More backward a country, more its fascination with guns and bombs. That's why you cannot imagine a hero, without a gun in their hands.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Ceasefire only postpones war, what’s needed is demilitarization.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Military is people-approved genocide.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“Pick up a broom, not bombs,
Wield a mop, not weapons
of mass destruction.
Sacred minds make sacred society,
Peace comes when the very thought
of arms causes repulsion.”
Source: Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home
“What kind of a moron thinks that a nation grows great by developing the military capacity to destroy another nation! Yet that is the first thing you think of when you hear the term of patriotism. It's time we rise above these outdated notions and customs, and learn to find home in people, not places – in beings, not borders.”
Source: Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home
“We cannot remove guns once they are made. We can still stop making bullets.
2 Oct International Day of Non Violence”
“As always, the only way out is in. Withdrawal from the
system is a powerful mode of nonviolent resistance, and one never more effective than when done using conscious reclamation and cultivation of our own energy.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“Anyone leading a violent rebellion must be prepared to make an honest assessment regarding the possible casualties to a minority population confronting a well-armed, wealthy majority with a fanatical right wing that would delight in exterminating thousands of black men, women and children.”
Source: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
“The basis of Gandhi's nonviolence is to appeal to the good in others and evoke sympathy to one's cause through self-suffering.”
Source: Legacy of Love: My Education in the Path of Nonviolence
“A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of full victory. It underestimates the value of confrontation and dissolves the confidence born of partial victory by which new efforts are powered.”
Source: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
“Nonviolence is kindling light of love into the dark places and budding trust from the threshold of hopelessness.”
Source: Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
“No matter how impossible it feels, do not harm the fascist - throw them in jail like a petty thug, do not make martyr of their malice.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“Restrain the oppressor, don't harm them.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“Good Little Gods (The Sonnet)
A good person once said, to turn the other cheek.
I ain't him, I don't approve of his kind of naivety.
Hurt me all you want, I may still keep quiet but,
Lay a finger on my loved ones, 'n you are history.
Someone once ordered, sacrifice your child for me,
And a spineless patriarch rushed to obey it all.
If god commands to slaughter someone I love,
That stoneage nitwit will return without his balls.
Someone said, strike your partner if she denies coitus,
To which countless bugs still remain obedient.
I ask that moron of a god to come 'n say it to me,
And he won't be left man enough to even get a head.
Humankind ain't no slave to no prehistoric lords.
We may spare them only if they're good little gods.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“Precisely how are we supposed to win a war if we're not allowed to, you know, actually shoot anyone? --From SCAPEGOATS: The Goat Protocols”
Source: Scapegoats The Goat Protocols
“One gun has more power to take life than a hundred surgeons have to preserve it.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“Guns can be a strength in the hands of trained law enforcement officials and soldiers with character, but in the hands of civilians they are not just weakness, but a sickness. Without a trained host with character, a gun acts like a parasite, it not only makes the host sick both mentally and physically, but more importantly it sickens an entire society. Let me put this in perspective. In the hands of a civilian, snake venom is poison, in the hands of a scientist, it is medicine. So to put it in a nutshell - carry goodness, not guns. Civilization will never see the sun till the civilians reject their gun.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Guns are just viagra for the impotent.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“In recent years various dictatorships--of both internal and external origin--have collapsed or stumbled when confronted by defiant, mobilized people."
Those are the opening words of From Dictatorship to Democracy, an iconic pamphlet composed by Gene Sharp, an American academic. Sharp emerged from the world of pacifism, civil rights, and antiwar activism in the 1950s to become, by the 1990s, an advocate of nonviolent revolution. A student of Gandhi, King, and Thoreau, Sharp believed that dictatorships survive not because of the unusual powers or personalities of dictators but because most people who live under their rule are apathetic or afraid. He believed that if they overcame their apathy and fear, and that if they refused to acquiesce to the dictator's demands, then the dictator would no longer be able to rule.”
Source: Autocracy, Inc.
“Domestic Violence – I Deserve Respect!
As a male advocate for ending domestic abuse, Patrick believes domestic violence is not just a woman’s issue, it’s everyone’s issue. In his moving personal memoir, I AM ME, and in his powerful presentations, Patrick describes the painful domestic verbal abuse he endured from ex-wives and the physical abuse he suffered from his first LGBT partner. To book Patrick visit his website.”
“Ceasefire only postpones war, demilitarization plants peace.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Questions about the validity of violence should have been directed to those institutions that held and continue to hold a monopoly on violence: the police, the prisons, the military.”
Source: Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
“There is nothing sane, merciful, heroic, devout, redemptive, wise, holy, loving, peaceful, joyous, righteous, gracious, remotely spiritual, or worthy of praise where mass murder is concerned. We have been in this world long enough to know that by now and to understand that nonviolent conflict resolution informed by mutual compassion is the far better option.”
Source: Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
“Aşkistani: Citizen of Love (The Sonnet)
Listen you all peddlers of hate,
Hard as you may blow the horn of tyranny.
To jeopardize all your stone-age stupidity,
You'll always be confronted with an aşkistani.
We won't let your children come to harm,
Nor will we strike you back in vengeance.
But when you vilify the sanctity of human life,
Rest assured we'll restrain you without violence.
Violence may be your childish habit,
You may practice it all you desire.
We are the revolution of conscience,
That incinerates prejudice by sheer willpower.
We are not here to peddle any ideology.
All we ask is come let's be one family.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“It is not enough for the church to be active in the realm of ideas; it must move out to the arena of social action.”
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“Many white men fear retaliation. The job of the Negro is to show them that they have nothing to fear, that the Negro understands and forgives and is ready to forget the past. He must convince the white man that all he seeks is justice, for both himself and the white man.”
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“Pick up a broom, not bombs,
Wield a mop, not weapons.”
Source: Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home
“Terrorists don't walk around carrying guns and grenades any more, except for the confederate nitwits and religious blockheads that is. Today's terrorists walk amongst us, perfectly indistinguishable, with a fancy outside and a filthy inside. And here's my word to these violators of human rights.
I'm a billionaire, I'm a politician, I'm a bureaucrat, I'm a diplomat - if you so much as dream of exploiting people thinking such filth, mark the words of this gentalist eternal - it'll take me two shakes of a lamb's tail to wipe you out from the fabric of time. But I won't. No matter what, I'll defend the people, and still spare your life. You know why? Because, a terrorist is defined by how they treat the innocent, a reformist is defined by how they treat the terrorist. So mend your ways my child, because if you are terror, I am your grandfather.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“Another factor that enhances participation in nonviolent campaigns is the festival-like atmosphere that often accompanies nonviolent rallies and demonstrations -- as exemplified by the recent nonviolent campaigns in Serbia, Ukraine, Lebanon, and Egypt -- where concerts, singing and street theatre attracted large numbers of people (particularly young people) interested in having fun while fighting for a political cause. Humor and satire, which have featured prominently in nonviolent campaigns (less so in armed campaigns), have helped break down barriers of fear and promote solidarity among victims of state-sponsored oppression.”
“The more diverse the participation in the resistance -- in terms of gender, age, religion, ethnicity, ideology, profession, and socioeconomic status -- the more difficult it is for the adversary to isolate the participants and adopt a repressive strategy short of maximal and indiscriminate repression.”
Source: Erica Chenoweth,Maria J. Stephan'sWhy Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare) [Hardcover]2011
“To wage a war is easy, what's difficult is to wage a war without harming the innocent.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“I choose peace, not because I don't know violence -
I choose peace, because I know too much violence.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Jesus might have said to turn the other cheek, but I ain’t no Jesus – if they come for my loved ones, they won’t even have a head over their shoulders!”
Source: Girl Over God: The Novel
“There are times you gotta turn the other cheek, then there are times you gotta smack them back twice!”
Source: Woman Over World: The Novel
“I am a very violent person,
Yet nobody has seen my violence.
I've kept it overwhelmed all my life,
With a heart full of gentleness.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“You keep buying your children toy pistols, then you wonder, why there is no peace in the world!”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Your blessings are very important to melt down the stony hearts.”
Source: Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
“No guns,
No greed,
No grandeur.
Period.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“I Don't Have Time to Explain
(Sonnet 2466-2467)
I don't have time to explain basic science,
I don't have time to explain
why vaccines are crucial,
why the earth is not flat.
I don't have time to explain basic theology,
I don't have time to explain why
no religion is truer than another,
and why belief as coping mechanism is okay,
but belief mustn't be confused with truth.
For example, if you wanna talk facts,
most scientific religion is buddhism,
for much of buddhist literature is basic psychology,
sure, all religious meanderings occasionally
align with modern science, but no theology
is more aligned with modern science than buddhism -
likewise, most nonviolent religion is jainism,
to harm even a fly is sin in jainism -
and most charitable religion is sikhism,
nobody goes hungry where there is a sikh langar,
that too without being converted into a sikh.
There are two kinds of divinity in the world,
doctrinal divinity and human divinity -
doctrinal divinity is less holy, more prejudice,
whereas human divinity prioritizes humanity.
There are two kinds of truth in the world,
empirical truth and human truth -
empirical truth is all about facts,
human truth is more than facts -
human truth applies facts wisely among other
instruments to uplift human condition.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Civilization will never see the sun till the civilians reject their gun.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Leeches live by guns, legends live by ideas.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“Warm curiosity about what is happening is a different kind of experience than judgement. It can help us open to the bigger picture beyond this moment of what feels like failure. We may consider our person's history and our own. We might bring in our left-hemisphere emissary to see how we could understand where we are in the process. In this quieter internal place, sometimes an intuitive sense of trust will come even when we can't figure it out.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships