The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.

Violence is not power, but the absence of power.

I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

“Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.”

“the most reliable predictor of whether a country is violent within itself—or will use military violence against another country—is not poverty, natural resources, religion, or even degree of democracy; it’s violence against females. It normalizes all other violence.” 

“According to the wisdom of Indian Country on my own continent, it takes four generations to heal one act of violence. What” 

“the most reliable predictor of whether a country is violent within itself—or will use military violence against another country—is not poverty, natural resources, religion, or even degree of democracy; it’s violence against females. It normalizes all other violence.” 

“According to the wisdom of Indian Country on my own continent, it takes four generations to heal one act of violence. What” 

“We might have known sooner that the most reliable predictor of whether a country is violent within itself—or will use military violence against another country—is not poverty, natural resources, religion, or even degree of democracy; it’s violence against females. It normalizes all other violence.” 

“Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of ‘touching’ a man’s heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it

“Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.” 

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

It’s not the violence of the few that scares me, it’s the silence of the many.

Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy’s point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, ‘Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,’ but will curse and damn you when you say, ‘Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children.’ There is something wrong with that press.

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind’s last chance to choose between chaos and community.

We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.