Nonviolence quotations

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◆ Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.

- Sun Tzu99

◆ We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

- A J Muste98

◆ I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the wor

- Joan Baez98

◆ The evil the enemy may do never expresses all that he is. Nonviolence is a wager-- not so much on the goodness of humanity-- as on its infinite complexity.

- Robert Inchausti98

◆ Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

- Indian Proverb98

◆ Nonviolence is the greatest of all religions.

- Swami Sahajanand98

◆ The first thing to be disrupted by our commitment to nonviolence will be not the system but our own lives.

- James Douglass98

◆ Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson98