Thomas Merton Violence is a tool of the ignorant. The finger pulls the trigger, but the trigger may also be pulling the finger. Dr Leonard Berkowitz All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rather they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history.
All ideologies end up killing people.
If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life. The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Sun Tzu Nonviolence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.