Nonviolence – Thomas Merton

Nonviolence seeks to “win” not by destroying or even humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [them] that there is a higher and more certain common good than can be attained by bombs and blood. Nonviolence, ideally speaking, does not try to overcome the adversary winning over [them], but to turn [them] from an adversary into a collaborator by winning [them] over. Unfortunately, nonviolent resistance as practiced by those who do not understand it and have not been trained in it is often only a weak and veiled form of psychological aggression. — Faith and Violence, (pp.12-13)