Peaceful Means Quotes

Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.

If the oppressor uses peaceful means, the oppressed will never resort to violence. But if the oppressor uses violence, then the oppressed have no other alternative than violence—to retaliate with similar forms.

Governments cannot be denied the right to legitimate self defense once every means of peaceful settlement has been exhausted.

Always remember, politics is a substitute for violence.

You cannot have peaceful means - peaceful means will have to be used to bring about peaceful ends. If you use destructive means, you're going to bring about destructive ends.

If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.

The non-violent way does not bring about miracles.

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Killing is evil ... All countries are different and progress should be achieved by peaceful means wherever possible.

Foreign policy does not mean guns and rifles, but utilizing all legitimate international means to convince others.

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

Democracy demands the generation of conflict for the manifestation of different expectations and aspirations of people and at the same time its resolution through peaceful means

We can't win a war, but we can win an election.

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

Europeans should pay more attention. Iran has called for dialogue and is moving in the direction of reaching an agreement through peaceful means.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

Violence is my last option.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

I have stated publicly, I want the same things for Iran that I want for Brazil. I want them to use and develop their nuclear energy for peaceful means.

Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.

In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we urge the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them.

We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.

Truth is my God. I can only search Him through nonviolence and in on other way.

I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper.