Andrew Young Quotes

Violence is absolutely not our method.

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

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that

To be violent is the ultimate laziness. War always seems a great effort, but it is the easy way. And false non-violence is also an idol.

Violence is my last option.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

We make war that we may live in peace.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

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

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

We're not nearly as violent as the westerns.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

You are giving them a sword if you say you will use a sword yourself.

Non-violence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

We go about peace in a very belligerent way, don't we.

Force should never be the first answer, but sometimes it is the only answer.

Those who were not taught to fight, have naturally inclined in favor of any other mode of settling differences rather than that of fighting.

Repel force by force

…against the simple act of violence, words, moral indignation and world opinion are not enough.