~ The question is no longer between violence and non-violence; it is between non-violence and non-existence. ~
~ Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ~
~ The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. ~
~ Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. ~
~ Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being. ~
~ There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral. ~
~ It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. ~
~ The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves ~
~ The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ~
~ Violence does even justice unjustly. ~
~ Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence. ~
~ Frustration is the wet nurse of violence. ~