Conscience Quote by Barbara Deming

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both…

— Barbara Deming

Meekness is power under control.

— Warren W. Wiersbe

My philosophy is that one shall not resort to violence unless one is resolved to become the subject of violence at any time.

— Takeshi Kitano

There is a feeling of personal dignity and independence in grasping, literally, the power to back your refusal to be a target of a…

— John Longenecker

Violence is not power, but the absence of power.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.

— Terry Eagleton

If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.

— Bryan Stevenson

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If you manipulate, coerce, and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and by example,…

— William Martin

It's human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are.

— Naomi Wolf