Mandy Patinkin Quotes

We shall use only peaceful means and we shall not permit any other kind of method.

I don't have much time for real violence at all. I think there are infinitely better ways of changing the world than using violence. Sitting round a table talking is a pretty good start.

If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.

I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.

Violence is absolutely not our method.

I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.

My policy is trust—peace, and to put aside the bayonet

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?

If one's cause is supported by sound reasoning, there is no point in using violence. It is those who have no motive other than selfish desire and who cannot achieve their goal through logical reasoning who rely on force.

The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.

Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.

Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.

Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

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

You must fight others, but through peace, and through dialogue, and through education.

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

Violence is not the way.

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

The oil can is mightier than the sword.

I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence.

When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power.