Able Quote by Noam Chomsky

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

“Nonviolent defiance often risks serious casualities, but it seem to produce far fewer casualitie than when both sides use violence. At the same time,…

— Gene Sharp

Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their…

— Julia Bacha

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Nonviolent passive resistance is effective as long as your opposition adheres to the same rules as you do. But if peaceful protest is met…

— Nelson Mandela

Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where people are…

— Cesar Chavez

To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go.

— Winston Churchill

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Nonviolence cannot be used successfully to protect special privileges that have been won by violence.”

— David T. Dellinger

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

— Thich Nhat Hanh

The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized... The churches as a whole…

— Walter Wink

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

— Mahatma Gandhi