Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate has disappeared from the scene to plague the lives of those who have employed it against their foes.

... I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes ...

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

Wherever a people has grown savage in arms so that human laws have no longer any place among it, the only powerful means of reducing it is religion.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.

Violence is just where kindness is vain.

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

Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.