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Definitions for non-violence
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Non-Violence
Non-Violence is a bronze sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd of an oversized Colt Python .357 Magnum revolver with a knotted barrel and the muzzle pointing upwards. There are currently 16 sculptures all around the world. They are placed in: Located in The Museum of Sketches in Lund, Sweden, is a sketch of the firearm where Reuterswärd has written that the grieving after John Lennon and Bob Crane were murdered inspired him to design this artwork. Since 1993, the Non-Violence sculpture is the symbol of The Non-Violence Project, a non-profit organisation, promoting social change with violence prevention education programs.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of non-violence in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of non-violence in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of non-violence in a Sentence
Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.
The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.
Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its full potency and not have discarded it as soon as the fight against the British was over or we were in a position to wield conventional weapons. But as I have already said, we adopted it out of our helplessness. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.
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