nonviolence
非暴力,不暴力
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- : absence or lack of violence; state or condition of avoiding violence.
- : the policy, practice, or technique of refraining from the use of violence, especially when reacting to or protesting against oppression, injustice, discrimination, or the like.
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Examples
Although she says she believed in nonviolence as a “first step” in demonstrations, she also encouraged her followers to use physical force if confronted with threats.
That's how they kept clean, meeting with the mayor one day and affirming no snitching over nonviolence the next.
Abbas has been committed—quite unsuccessfully, but nevertheless committed—to nonviolence.
This is why nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon.
I saw there, I felt there, for the first time, the pride and the power of nonviolence.
“Our policy to achieve a nonracial state by nonviolence had achieved nothing,” he concluded.
Every problem would lend itself to solution if we determined to make the law of truth and nonviolence the law of life.
It takes a fairly strenuous course of training to attain a mental state of nonviolence.
Nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than forces of nature like, for instance, electricity.
Nonviolence is the natural outgrowth of the law of forgiveness and love.
He believed in nonviolence and the sanctity of life—until the first test, when he had killed without hesitation.