Also Quote by Dalai Lama

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

— Malcolm X

Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people; this is…

— Anonymous

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

— Ron Paul

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

— George Orwell

So many people around the world have used nonviolence as a way to resolve a conflict that they faced in their lives. And they…

— Arun Manilal Gandhi

Being hated and hunted and blamed for your own suffering makes people kind of testy, nervous, and on edge, and often fundamentalist and extreme.…

— Roseanne Barr

Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two…

— Gregory Clark

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

People are very good in self-defense they talk about what people did with them but they never talk about what they did with others.

— Abhishek Tiwari

There's nothing heroic about suicide bombers. They're mostly just dumb, brainwashed kids, stoned out of their minds.

— Marcus Luttrell

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being…

— Richard Wright