Accomplished Quote by Robert Higgs

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

— Edward Kennedy

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

— David T. Dellinger

The use of violence is justified only under a tyranny which makes reforms without violence impossible, and should have only one aim, that is,…

— Karl Popper

“Non-violence is a good policy when conditions permit.”

— Nelson Mandela

“MY THESIS, in simplest terms, is: Let anyone do anything he pleases, so long as it is peaceful; the role of government, then, is…

— Leonard E. Read

Under no circumstance must we allow anyone to incite violence against our nation. That is not acceptable.

— Shatrughan Sinha

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

— Dan Simmons

Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those who do not fulfill…

— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

We cannot stop senseless violence without the rule of law and security forces that represent and respect every segment of society.

— Haider al-Abadi

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means.

— Cesar Chavez