If your base is large enough, possibly turning to violence perhaps does not affect the outcome very much. But if you're in a position where you know you are 20 % of the population, you really need to recruit a significant number of people to come over to your side. And it seems to be in those cases where turning to violence runs the risk of alienating people who might otherwise support you. So many regimes seem to try to deliberately provoke non violent movements into a kind of breaking down their discipline. They know that significant portions of the population will largely agree with that. This is part of the reason why ajon's provocators, or incidents of repression meant to provoke people out of