A Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian - Leader
October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948

Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

Cesar Chavez

My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.

Laozi

That all things are possible to him who believes, that they are less difficult to him who hopes, they are more easy to him who loves, and still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these three virtues.

Brother Lawrence

Our nonviolence vis-?-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

Mahatma Gandhi

Veganism is about nonviolence: nonviolence to other sentient beings; nonviolence to yourself; nonviolence to the earth.

Gary L. Francione

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

Alain de Botton

Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people; this is a kind of nonviolence.

Nhat Hanh

Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

Mahatma Gandhi

My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. Yet your intellect will never grasp them, and if you try to practice them, you'll fail. My teachings are older than the world. How can you grasp their meaning? If you want to know me, look inside your heart.

Laozi

All things are possible to those who believe, less difficult to those who hope, more easy to those who love, and still easier to those who persevere in the practice of these three virtues.

Kirk Cameron

We have both a weak self and a strong self; the two are completely different. If we allow our weak side to dominate, we will be defeated. The thought ,"I am still young and have a lot of time, so I can relax and take life easy" is a function of our own weakness.

Daisaku Ikeda

My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.

Mahatma Gandhi

Easy was for people too weak to suck it up and do what needed to be done. And I wasn’t weak. Not anymore.

Jennifer Estep

Americans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

If you understand real practice, then archery or other activities can be zen. If you don't understand how to practice archery in its true sense, then even though you practice very hard, what you acquire is just technique. It won't help you through and through. Perhaps you can hit the mark without trying, but without a bow and arrow you cannot do anything. If you understand the point of practice, then even without a bow and arrow the archery will help you. How you get that kind of power or ability is only through right practice.

Shunryu Suzuki

Part of the reason I embrace nonviolence is that it's the most effective thing we can do. It's a more advanced tactic than violence. If people who engage in violence want to escalate their tactics, they would escalate to nonviolence.

Tim DeChristopher

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