"Non-violence is a very powerful weapon. Most people don't understand the power of non-violence and tend to be amazed by the whole idea. Those who have been involved in bringing about change and see the difference between violence and non-violence are firmly committed to a lifetime of non-violence, not because it is easy or because it is cowardly, but because it is an effective and very powerful way."

"I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!"

"In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence."

"Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work."

"Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others."

"There's no reason to be non-violent. There's no challenge unless you are living for people."

"Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines."

"The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating."

"Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization."

"Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things."

"Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it."

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

"Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it."

"If you win non-violently, then you have a double victory, you have not only won your fight, but you remain free."

"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression;for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."

"Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin."

"God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it."

"We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict."

"Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence."

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

It never worked for me. Something to do with violence A long way back, and wrong rewards, And arrogant eternity.

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

I'd be glad of a retaliation that wouldn't recoil on myself; but treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends: they wound those who resort to them, worse than their enemies.

There's more than one way to sense violence.