Quotes on Physical Violence

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man's self-defense, and, as such, may only resort to force only against those who start the use of force.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.