Nonviolence
Ahimsa
Sanskrit word that means "the lack of desire to kill" or further "the absence of all intentions to harm." By extension, Ahimsa is the term for "non-violence."
- Topics : Nonviolence
- Definition
The soldier's humanity
Soldiers ! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you ; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel ! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder !
- Topics : Love, Ethics, War, Nonviolence, Humanization
- Author : CHAPLIN Charlie
- Quote
Peaceful revolutions and violent ones
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- Topics : Mediation, Nonviolence, Unavoidable violence, Political power
- Quote
It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence
It is no longer a choice, my friends, between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence. And the alternative to disarmament, the alternative to a greater suspension of nuclear tests, the alternative to strengthening the United Nations and thereby disarming the whole world, may well be a civilization plunged into the abyss of annihilation, and our earthly habitat would be transformed into an inferno that even the mind of Dante could not imagine."
- Topics : Awakening, Conflict prevention, Civilized society, Discernment, Nonviolence, Violence, War
- Author : KING Martin Luther Jr
- Quote
Remaining Awake Through a triple Revolution
There can be no gainsaying of the fact that a great revolution is taking place in the world today. In a sense it is a triple revolution: that is, a technological revolution, with the impact of automation and cybernation; then there is a revolution in weaponry, with the emergence of atomic and nuclear weapons of warfare; then there is a human rights revolution, with the freedom explosion that is taking place all over the world." (...)
- Topics : Awakening, Awareness, Civilized society, Conflict prevention, Culture of peace, Ethics, Justice, Living together, Nonviolence, Peace, Progress, Racism, Solidarity, Violence, War, Fraternity, Human rights
- Author : KING Martin Luther Jr
- Quote
Jokes are non-violent
Jokes are man’s way to escape violence…
Emo Philips
Source: The Guardian, 29.9.2005
- Topics : Human instincts, Nonviolence
- Humor