Acts of violence Quote by Paul Watson

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Nonviolence is not just a state of being where violence is absent or invisible. It is a conscious, active effort not to harm anyone…

— Arun Gandhi

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong

— Anonymous

Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

— Malcolm X

Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They…

— Mahatma Gandhi

We cannot anticipate the moral circumstances under which we will live. And therefore [I refuse] to say that I will not live in a…

— George Friedman

Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.

— John Lewis

One cannot have a right to life without the right to defend it with deadly force.

— Bruce Montague