Top 1200 Nonviolent Resistance Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that a government spends for whatever purposes are levied by taxation. And taxes are paid because the taxpayers are afraid of offering resistance to the tax gatherers. They know that any disobedience or resistance is hopeless. As long as this is the state of affairs, the government is able to collect the money that it wants to spend.

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

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.

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

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

We performed 'Road of Resistance' at O2 Academy Brixton in London for the first time in the fall of 2014. I still remember how the British audience sang this song with us although it was a world premiere. In other words, the song 'Road of Resistance' really propelled us to move forward.

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

There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth

Look in your own heart. Unless I'm crazy, right now a still small voice is piping up, telling you as it has ten thousand times, the calling that is yours and yours alone. You know it. No one has to tell you. And unless I'm crazy, you're no closer to taking action on it than you were yesterday or will be tomorrow. You think Resistance isn't real? Resistance will bury you.

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

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

Our way out involves both resistance and renewal: saying no to what is, so that we can reshape and recreate the world. Our challenge is communal, but to face it we must be empowered as individuals and create structures of support and celebration that can teach us freedom. Creation is the ultimate resistance, the ultimate refusal to accept things as they are. For it is in creation that we encounter Mystery.

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

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

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

Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

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

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

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.

I believe in a nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, sanctions.

Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

There's an awful lot about our society that is at odds with the basic message of "don't smoke, be active, eat a healthy diet, and by the way control stress and get enough sleep." We don't make those things easy. We ideally would make health lie along the path of least resistance. But if not the path of least resistance, there at least needs to be a path so you don't have to bushwhack your way there.

It is not love that is to blame. But each of us has resistance to the very love we desire. We also have resistance to the space and independence we need. So we go back and forth, not letting ourselves have one or the other. It all boils down to this: Are you willing to have your relationships be a pathway to fully revealing yourself and your potential? If you answer is Yes, real intimacy can be yours on a daily basis.

A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.

Resistance and nonviolence are not in themselves good. There is another element that must be present in our struggle that then makes our resistance and nonviolence truly meaningful. That element is reconciliation. Our ultimate end must be the creation of the beloved community.

The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance....Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms the Darwinian selection mechanism for small-scale changes, but hardly warrants the grand extrapolation that Darwinists want. It is a huge leap going from insects developing insecticide resistance via the Darwinian mechanism of natural selection and random variation to the very emergence of insects in the first place by that same mechanism.

Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable.

The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.

Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.

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

For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may no longer be that of least resistance. In studying the physical aspect, we must never lose sight of the psychological, and only when both are combined is the strategy truly an indirect approach, calculated to dislocate the opponent's balance.

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

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

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

Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.

If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.

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

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

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

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

The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.

Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.

Palestine has a very strong nonviolent movement.

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

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

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

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

The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.

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

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

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

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

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

Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the resisters are acting in the name of justice. And the justice of the cause does not depend on, and is not enhanced by, the virtue of those who make the assertion. It depends first and last on the truth of a description of a state of affairs that is, truly, unjust and unnecessary.

The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.

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

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

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