“We are going to see a great number of articles in the future from so-called experts and public officials. They will warn about more violence, more kidnappings, and more terrorists. Mass media, the armed forces, and intelligence agencies will saturate our lives with fascist scare tactics and 'predictions' that have already been planned to come true.” ForceNumbersOur LivesViolenceMediaMassTerroristExpertsAgencyOfficialsScareArticlesPredictionsTacticsFascistsArmed ForcesMass MediaKidnappingPublic OfficialsIntelligence AgenciesScare Tactics Author:Mae Brussell
“Part of the reason I embrace nonviolence is that it's the most effective thing we can do. It's a more advanced tactic than violence. If people who engage in violence want to escalate their tactics, they would escalate to nonviolence.” PeopleIfsWantReasonCan DoViolenceEmbraceNonviolenceTactics Author:Tim DeChristopher
“As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.” GovernmentViolenceFailingAbsurdTacticsResortsRepressionAdministrators Book:The Essential Chomsky Source: The Essential Chomsky
“I do not oppose violence simply because it is counterproductive. I oppose it because it betrays animal rights philosophy. Those who resort to such tactics really have not understood that animal rights is about the extension of moral concern to all sentient beings--humans obviously included.” HumansPhilosophyAnimalMoralRightsViolenceUnderstoodConcernAnimal RightsBetrayExtensionsTacticsResortsSentient BeingsCounterproductive Author:Andrew Linzey
“Sun Tzu's ideas as expressed above had a profound effect on Ho Chi Minh, who sought to defeat both the French and the Americans without recourse to violence - or at least to conventional battle tactics.” IdeasSunViolenceEffectsBattleProfoundDefeatConventionalTacticsRecourse Author:William J. Duiker
“Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.” ShouldViolenceVictimIdeologyMassiveTacticsNon ViolenceSidelines Author:Arundhati Roy