We can prevent fighting by limiting weapons or finding nonviolent ways to end disputes.
We shall use only peaceful means and we shall not permit any other kind of method.
There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.
The Bar Association can do so much in teaching people how to resolve conflicts without knives and guns and fists.
If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.
We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in us.
So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.
The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.
I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.