"The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton."
Read quote
3 likes
Violence quotes
Violence
1.3K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Violence
Browse quotes that often appear alongside violence — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Violence quotes (page 18 of 65)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it."
Read quote
3 likes
"Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents."
Read quote
3 likes
"Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being."
Read quote
3 likes
"My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight."
Read quote
3 likes
"If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may."
Read quote
3 likes
"I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence."
Read quote
3 likes
"Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion."
Read quote
3 likes
"If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races."
Read quote
3 likes
"The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour."
Read quote
3 likes
"Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know."
Read quote
3 likes
"I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders."
Read quote
3 likes
"Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence."
Read quote
3 likes
"My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive."
Read quote
3 likes
"With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster."
Read quote
3 likes
"For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence."
Read quote
3 likes
"My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform."
Read quote
3 likes
"Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth."
Read quote
3 likes
"I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions."
Read quote
3 likes
"What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence."
Read quote
3 likes