Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Lack of violence.
- noun The doctrine, policy, or practice of rejecting violence in favor of peaceful tactics as a means of gaining political objectives.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The theory, doctrine, or practice of peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
philosophy that rejects the use ofviolence , and instead seeks to bring about change throughpeaceful responses even to violent acts.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate
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Examples
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If nonviolence is to work it must be used consistently and across the board.
Can you prove nonviolence works? John Storhm 2009
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For me, as for many who call themselves pacifists, nonviolence is the same.
Archive 2009-03-01 John Storhm 2009
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One of the foundational principles behind Quaker nonviolence is truthfulness.
Can you prove nonviolence works? John Storhm 2009
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As I have asserted in everything I have written about nonviolence, nonviolence is very useful when there is a great disparity in the ability to mount physical force between those seeking equality and those defending the status quo.
Can you prove nonviolence works? John Storhm 2009
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So the goal in such a discussion cannot be to show that nonviolence is used more often then violence because that is just not true.
Can you prove nonviolence works? John Storhm 2009
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I just mean to underscore that nonviolence is a hard thing to adopt in a mass movement.
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The real power of nonviolence is not to deter an aggressor, but to unify your allies and potential supporters.
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Re: The key feature to the success of nonviolence is the ideology of the oppressor.
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The key feature to the success of nonviolence is the ideology of the oppressor.
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So the goal in such a discussion cannot be to show that nonviolence is used more often then violence because that is just not true.
Archive 2009-03-01 John Storhm 2009
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