A Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Difficult Nonviolence Perfect Weakness

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

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

Gary L. Francione

It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.

Martin Scorsese

No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?

Laurence J. Peter

He's not perfect. You aren't either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can.

Bob Marley

Remember, it is not your weakness that will get in the way of God's working through you, but your delusions of strength. His strength is made perfect in our weakness! Point to His strength by being willing to admit your weakness.

Paul David Tripp

It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.

Bono

Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.

Mahatma Gandhi

Perfect health means no weakness anywhere, that is no weakness should remain in the body, or in the mind, or in the relationship between the body and the mind.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.

Mahatma Gandhi

It's difficult to find a genuine weakness that makes you appear competent. For instance, telling your interviewer that your weakness is working so hard that you have trouble prioritizing your family life is a little too cliche and comes across as disingenuous.

Travis Bradberry

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

Mahatma Gandhi

The biblical model is that God deliberately chooses imperfect vessels - those who have been wounded, those with physical or emotional limitations. Then he prepares them to serve and sends them out with their weakness still evident, so that his strength can be made perfect in that weakness.