Behavior Quote by Marshall B. Rosenberg

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

— Aesop

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

— Pierre Corneille

The problem with using force in our lives is that we always create a counterforce. For example, If you're with a child and the…

— Wayne Dyer

The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

The more you resist something, the more aggressive it becomes.

— Bernice King

Anger or hate can be a useful motivating force

— Jenny Holzer

We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not…

— Scilla Elworthy

Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it…

— Bhagat Singh

It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn…

— Benjamin Tucker

If there are sound reasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need for violence. On the other hand, when…

— Dalai Lama

Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.

— Aesop

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes,…

— Simone Weil