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A non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet. -- Casey Kasem
Golf is a non-violent game played violently from within. -- Bob Toski
The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating. -- Cesar Chavez
I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent. -- Eli Roth
There's no reason to be non-violent. There's no challenge unless you are living for people. -- Cesar Chavez
I'm a real positive person. Non-violent. Love everybody. I'm definitely an asset to the world. -- Lil B
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I will try to be non-violent one more day this morning, waking the world away in the violent day. -- Muriel Rukeyser
I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God. -- Cesar Chavez
Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent resistance". -- Dwight Macdonald
I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process. -- Edward James Olmos
The greatness of non-violent resistance is that even as man is faced with tyranny, and the resulting suffering, he responds to hate with love, to prejudice with tolerance, to arrogance with humility, to humiliation with dignity, and to violence with reason. -- Liu Xia
In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime. -- Desmond Tutu
Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With the very same powers - spiritual, social, scientific - we can evolve our world. Our mission is to serve as catalysts for a planetary awakening in our lifetime, to take a non-violent path to the next stage of our evolution. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Who wouldn't want to vote for a guy who was a peaceful, radical, non-violent revolutionary; who hung around with lepers, hookers, and crooks; who never spoke English; was not an American citizen; anti-capitalism; totally anti-death penalty; anti-public prayer (Matthew 6:5); but never once anti-gay; didn't mention abortion; and was a long-haired, brown-skinned, homeless, middle-eastern, Jew? -- John Fugelsang
If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: Search after truth through non-violent means. A man may not believe in God and still call himself a Hindu. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth... Hinduism is the religion of truth. Truth is God. Denial of God we have known. Denial of truth we have not known. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Anything that is non-violent is OK with me. -- Jasmine Guy
Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action. -- Julian Assange
Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts. -- Robert Rauschenberg
Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic. -- William Kunstler
A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If anything I consider myself non-violent, I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy. -- Rick James
We are flawed creatures with explosive feelings that subconsciously aspire to be non-violent sociopaths. -- Jayme K.
If anything I consider myself non-violent. I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy. -- Rick James
Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything. -- Bob Brown
What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism. -- Maajid Nawaz
Violence can only breed more violence and suffering. Our struggle must remain non-violent and free of hatred. -- Dalai Lama XIV
Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent -- Betty Williams
Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society. -- Maajid Nawaz
I don't believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience. -- Ellen Page
Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary. -- Neil Young
When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action. -- Caroline Lucas
I suppose you could be a member of a terrorist organization in a non-violent way, in the laundry or the catering department. -- Bill Bailey
The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person. -- E. F. Schumacher
But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism. -- Ron Paul
Since the start of the Occupy Wall Street movement, CODEPINK activists have joined the frontlines of the non-violent Occupy movement across the country. -- Jodie Evans
Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government. -- Sam Farr
Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later. -- Bob Filner
A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
The kind of values for which I was supposed to kill, such as democracy and national independence, were better served, I thought, through non-violent action. -- Torbjorn Tannsjo
If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to a low-degree creature! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It's utterly hypocritical for Israelis to wonder aloud why Palestinians don't pursue a non-violent strategy. One obvious reason is that, whenever they have, Israel brutally represses it. -- Norman Finkelstein
Individuals who are really inspirational are always what changes history. Gandhi had a bunch of good ideas, and he led a non - violent revolution that transformed India. -- Daniel Pinchbeck
This marched was planned to be non violent and non confrontational, and gladly it stayed that way. What really impressed me was the self discipline of the Black Block. -- John Blair
Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development is the best form of conflict prevention. -- Kofi Annan
Should one whole year from this July 4th pass while the crimes of this government are allowed to continue, we may have passed the point at which non-violent revolution becomes impossible. -- Adam Kokesh
I would have taken the time to learn how to listen earlier. Learning about non-violent communication and how to take feedback has been integral to both my personal happiness and professional success. -- Dale J. Stephens
I take a very simple view that a violent extremist at some point previously been an extremist, and by definition is an extremist, so you do need to look at that non-violent extremism. -- Theresa May
And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new. -- Hannah Arendt
It is, therefore, a fact that anybody who wants to realise Truth or who wants to be humane, must follow non-violent ways of life, otherwise he will not be able to reach the Truth. -- Morarji Desai
I don't think we should take the emotional reactions of a few people as more representative than those of the millions of people who took to the street in a non-violent way against dictators. -- Tariq Ramadan
I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for his illness and, as a result, becoming more and more ill. -- Mike DeWine
Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence. That's pretty obvious. You can't have non-violent resistance against the Nazis in a concentration camp, to take an extreme case... -- Noam Chomsky

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