If you live in a society where those who govern society and determine its path do not respect freedom of speech and freedom of religion, freedom of choice, freedom of assembly, and if there is no democratic process and no way to change the order of things by reason and peace and love and so on, and if, as a result of that, certain ideas in which you believe are being crushed, then I think the only way you can defend yourself against this violence is in using violence of your own.

I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.

I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police, army, to make sure that at least the freedom of choice is preserved.

I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.

I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.

The most beautiful missionaries I saw were those who talked less about religion but who were very generous in their approach.

I think that the history of the past hundred years has shown us that, by and large, the one linguistic group to whom separatism is being preached is not moved by the arguments which are used.