Top 1200 Nonviolent Communication Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.

A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.

The organization reflects the behavior and characteristics of the CEO, and that establishes the culture. Foster an environment of open communication, and the organization inherits a culture of open communication.

Communication. It's important to be completely open and fearless when it comes to communication. Good, bad, happy, sad. Talk it out, hug, see a shrink, text each other, hurl marshmallows. Whatever it takes to ensure a deep understanding of each other's feelings. Cancer is not a solo mission.

Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.

Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.

Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.

Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India.

Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.

Health is a state of perfect subatomic communication and ill health is a state when communication breaks down. We become ill when our waves are out of sync.

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical. Everything since then has been small increments, including the internet. So you don't have to wait for a letter to get to England in six weeks, you have almost instant communication. That was an enormous shift.

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.

Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don't use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely.

I think in modern communication studies, we put a lot of emphasis on our relationships and our family relationships. Our relationships with our parents, and our siblings. I felt that there was this gap in content about communication with people who are super close to you in your peer group.

I’ve had unsatisfying experiences, but mostly it’s about communication, which is why I make an effort to talk to the director beforehand to make sure we see eye-to-eye as creative individuals. If [good] communication isn’t present, you can lose something and end up very unhappy.

The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.

A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.

As a writer I have always fought for the right to write. For writing is a time-honored means of communication. Lack of communication, the refusal of some to understand, or outright refusal to learn about other human beings is based on fear. Fear is what keeps people apart.

I welcome nonviolent protests as an exercise of our great democracy.

Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

Graphic design was largely about communication in an artistic or creative manner, much like writing is used to convey ideas. Many designers completely miss that aspect of the "art." Some are completely satisfied with just making things pretty, without taking the communication element into consideration.

Access to communication in the widest sense is access to knowledge, and that is vitally important for us if we are not to go on being despised or patronized by condescending sighted people. We do not need pity, nor do we need to be reminded that we are vulnerable. We must be treated as equals — and communication is the way we can bring this about.

The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept. Not that we discover a new unity. We discover an older unity. My dear Brothers [and Sisters], we are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are.

Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.

I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.

We can prevent fighting by limiting weapons or finding nonviolent ways to end disputes.

Before Gutenberg, there was this really very strong oral storytelling culture where being able to relay stories from person to person was sufficient. And then, with the introduction of printing and mass communication, suddenly somebody had a lot of authority invested in the idea of a single canonical expression of a document or a piece of communication.

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you dont use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely.

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.

The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

Communications are making this one world. Back in the day, 400-500 years ago, nobody knew what anyone else was doing. It's on the 6 O'Clock news now. Now we can say, Oh, that's the way they live. Oh, they do that!! Opportunities, the chance to bring about change, it's all based on communication. Communication and jet planes.

By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.

We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.

Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.

Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too dynamic, complex, and diversified, too cross-linked by the global immediacies of modern (quantum) communication, for stability of thought or dependability of behaviour to be successful.

I think it's important to have open lines of communication and I think the best lines of communication are two-way lines.

One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil.

With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world's entire population using one communication technology, that's a big deal. It's beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it's a fad have probably not been paying that much attention.

Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

Most of the time when there's a communication problem, it's because the message being received is not the message you want. It's not that they don't know what they need to do, how we need to act as a team, whatever. If you don't like the message, then you go say there's a communication problem.

Understanding child development takes the emphasis away from the child's character--looking at the child as good or bad. The emphasis is put on behavior as communication. Discipline is thus seen as problem-solving. The child is helped to learn a more acceptable manner of communication.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

Forcing a dog into an alpha roll, or shaking the dog, both constitute physical aggression. Physical aggression is not communication. If there is good communication, then such confrontations need not occur.

Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the most diseased; to conceal nothing; to pretend nothing; if we are ignorant to say so; if we love our friends to let them know it.

It's the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there's still hope.

If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything does from disuse.

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.