Associations to the word «Nonviolence»

Wiktionary

NONVIOLENCE, noun. A philosophy that rejects the use of violence, and instead seeks to bring about change through peaceful responses even to violent acts.

Dictionary definition

NONVIOLENCE, noun. Peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky