Adults Quote by Elise M. Boulding

“The maintenance of high standards of behavior in nonviolent action is necessary at all stages of the conflict.”

— Gene Sharp

Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A society whose moral ideas, inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral. In any conflict the…

— Randy Wayne White

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences

— B. F. Skinner

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Put differently, oppressive actions and drives are inherent in the lower stages of development. […] A lower, pre-worldcentric stage of development will step all…

— Ken Wilber

I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our children certainly not by threat, guilt, or punishment. But…

— Fred Rogers

“Parents that provide a nonviolent, fostering, strong and steady background for their children assist in impede violence and abuse in their households.”

— Patricia Dsouza

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

— Margaret Mead

“Aggression hides in our culture under many names. Taxation is only an example, but one of the most widespread and uneconomical. If this concept…

— Mary J. Ruwart