„Resistance through violence and killing is wrong and does not succeed.“

— Barack Obama
„Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence.“
— Noam Chomsky
„Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence. That's pretty obvious. You can't have non-violent resistance against the Nazis in a concentration camp, to take an extreme case...“
— Noam Chomsky
„A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains“
— Leon Trotsky
„Violence will not address the grievances of the Egyptian people. And suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.“
— Barack Obama
„Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson