Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it. – Lewis H. Lapham

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. – Gandhi

Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. – John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667