Apologizing Quote by Osman Baydemir

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of…

— Rebecca West

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

— Joseph Stalin

I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.

— Ulysses S. Grant

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as…

— June Jordan

However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I've been in politics all my life. In 1945, I committed my first act of civil disobedience during the election campaign for the first…

— Patrick Stewart

I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about…

— John Pugsley

I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is needed, and…

— Thomas Merton

“Peaceful civil disobedience to unjust laws, which I support with every fiber of my being, can sometimes be necessary at any level of government.…

— Ron Paul

I have chosen to fight against corruption in this country, though I have been advised not to because we are drawing closer to this…

— Joyce Banda

Don't stand back with your arms folded; step forward... There is hope and light to resist injustice and promote peace without violence.

— Adolfo Perez Esquivel