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I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

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

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.

I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.

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

I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.

When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.