Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible in their consciousness of being right.

If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.

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

My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.

Those who are skilled in combat do not become angry. The wise win before the fight and the ignorant fight to win.

It is not violence that best overcomes hate — nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

Moralists advise us all to avoid violence, of course, but only insofar as this is possible. They authorize us, at least tacitly, to reply to obvious provocations by the measured counterviolence that I described earlier, and which seems to us always justified.

A life of knowledge is not often a life of injury and crime.

a skillful soldier is not violent, an able fighter does not rage, a mighty conqueror does not give battle, a great commander is a humble man

Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real solution to conflict and disagreement. There is no hundred percent winner, no hundred percent loser — not that way but half-and-half. That is the practical way, the only way.

Trust your intuition, rather than technology, to protect you from violence.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.