Tom Shadyac Quotes

Nonviolence is pretty ballsy, pretty advanced weaponry.

I am a pacifist.

I'm a pacifist.

If the fight comes unsolicited, I am not willing to die meekly, to surrender without an effort. And that being so, am I still a pacifist?

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

I myself would go for nonviolence if it was consistent, if everybody was going to be nonviolent all the time. I'd say, okay, let's get with it, we'll all be nonviolent. But I don't go along with any kind of nonviolence unless everybody's going to be nonviolent. If they make the Ku Klux Klan nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. If they make the White Citizens Council nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. But as long as you've got somebody else not being nonviolent, I don't want anybody coming to me talking any nonviolent talk.

A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise - that there are causes worth suffering and dying for.

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon ... which cuts without wounding ... It is a sword that heals.

The meek do not inherit the earth unless they are prepared to fight for their meekness.

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.

I have come to fight for peace, and I will not give my hand to those who try to turn the word 'peace' into a dirty one.

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.