Peacebuilding Quote by Nelson Mandela

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

— Nelson Mandela

Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best

— Ela Bhatt

Part of the reason I embrace nonviolence is that it's the most effective thing we can do. It's a more advanced tactic than violence.…

— Tim DeChristopher

“Nonviolence is often the path of wisdom, but not always. Love and passive resistance are wonderfully effective weapons against some kinds of tyranny, but…

— Freeman Dyson

I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics.

— Jerry Vlasak

Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong

— Anonymous

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

Nonviolence is something very powerful, and the power behind it is not weapons, but the support of the people.

— Arun Manilal Gandhi

[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

— Mahatma Gandhi