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Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'. — Karl Popper

The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes. — Walid Jumblatt

We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. — Winston Churchill

The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it. — Warren Farrell

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea. — Charlotte Bunch

People don't understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There's more violence in the jail-house than there is on the streets. — Snoop Dogg

Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others' interests into account. — Dalai Lama

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children. — Rich Lowry

I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money. — David Mamet

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence. — Joan Baez

Factual accounts of premeditated violence in the global fashion industry. — William Gibson

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you ... — Sarah McLachlan

The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured. — Anthony Burgess

Comparison is an act of violence against the self. — Iyanla Vanzant

and in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law." "And is — Xenophon

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. — Alice Walker

Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue. — Dalai Lama

If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation — Dalai Lama

When you see a person acting violently, ask yourself whether he knows how powerful he is. If he knew his power, would he feel the need to assert it? — Vironika Tugaleva

The path of violence has not yielded anything. Shed guns and adopt the path of peace, unity, goodwill and brotherhood. — Narendra Modi

Dear God, grant me the violence to crush mine enemies.
Dear God, give me mechanical lungs, for when I'm drowning. — Aaron W. Rockwell

Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it. — Stephen A. Diamond

sacralized, violence made sacred in the very act of being expelled; or still, human violence transformed from bad and destructive — Cesareo Bandera

Don't you understand that freedom depends upon the continuing possibility of rebel violence. When violence becomes unthinkable, freedom dies ... — Samuel B. Southwell

A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world — Ron Rash

Violence just hurts those who are already hurt ... Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it. — Cesar Chavez

Domestic violence rarely affects only those directly involved in the abusive relationship. — Asa Don Brown

Always talk, talk, talk with you people," Pearl said. "You know, sometimes violence really is the answer. — Sarah Beth Durst

Fear, she's the mother of violence. — Peter Gabriel

Aren't the Amish against violence?
Yes, but you see, I'm not very good at being Amish ... so remember what I say. — Kelly Long

Kill not, cause no pain. Nonviolence is the greatest religion. — Mahavira

Sex needed to be a little rough and crude to balance out the elegance. A touch of tasteful violence goes a long way. — Karina Halle

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from. — Mahatma Gandhi

For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli. — John Conyers

All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person. — Alana Stewart

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice. — Stanley Kubrick

The most disgusting human trait is bias, because it typically leads to propaganda, hate and violence. — Lori Goodwin

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. — Henry George Bohn

Batman: You can't build a better world by killing criminals--it bankrupts your soul and society's by reinforcing the same cycle of violence. — Peter J. Tomasi

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors. — Frank Herbert

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. — Denis Diderot

Through violence you may murder the hater, but you cannot murder hate. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing. — Joseph Conrad

Our struggle against violence and cruelty is only treating the symptoms of a disease, not curing it. You are the cure. — Veronica Roth

The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning. — Laozi

The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions. — Jon Wynne-Tyson

Come see the violence inherent in the system, HELP I'm being repressed! — Monty Python And The Holy Grail

Violence against women can end only when the culprits get punished. — Mukhtar Ma'i

The fish does not know it is wet. America is immersed in violence. The violence is in our souls. The enemy is within. — Bryant McGill

The most important civil liberty ... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death ... — John Howard

I'm absolutely confident that the God that I worship abhors violence. — Richard Mourdock

Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used. — Gautama Buddha

We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level. — Spike Lee

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. — Albert Camus

Violence cannot destroy the body of the Goddess, for Her body is the world itself. — Rachel Pollack

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence. — Fritz Lang

Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees. — Robert A. Heinlein

When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do. — Mahatma Gandhi

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up. — Mahatma Gandhi

...but the power of spilled blood overwhelmed the good intentions of those who wanted to end the violence. — Jeffrey Goldberg

PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action. — Ambrose Bierce

I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda. — Mwai Kibaki

We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history. — George W. Bush

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society. — Samantha Morton

Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from these tensions. — Narendra Modi

The historical trajectory of violence affects not only how life is lived but how it is understood. — Steven Pinker

For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war. — Pope Francis

Here I stand and make Both myth and reality in my own way And live the violence of my dream and of my reality. — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

A quick and brutal fuck from behind usually served as an effective reminder of where you stood in the pack hierarchy. — Nenia Campbell

Jemima Jane Erickson was one drunken pass away from jumping Ethan Weston's bones. He just didn't know it. — Amy Andrews

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. — Mahatma Gandhi

The cultivation theory has been widely used in the study of violence in television. — Anonymous

Domestic abuse, also called intimate partner violence, is the systematic suffocation of another person's spirit. — Joanna Hunter

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence — Mahatma Gandhi

Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease. — Steven Pinker

The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed. — Bryant McGill

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton. — Mahatma Gandhi

Violence is rather a strange phenomenon that can be compared to fire, once out of control it's loyal to no one, not even to the person who started it. — Drexel Deal

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition. — Norman Lear

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. — David M. Friedman

Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more. — Salma Hayek

I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I wouldn't want to inspire any violence on anyone. — Mackenzie Astin

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable. — Condoleezza Rice

No one must use the name of God to commit violence. To kill in the name of God is a grave sacrilege. To discriminate in the name of God is inhuman. — Pope Francis

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for. — Mahatma Gandhi

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism. — Hermann Hesse

Violence is the instinctive response to fear. — Margaret Millar

Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love. — Adam Ross

I will speak in defense of reason: for the very child of vanity is violence. — Aeschylus

Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns. — Juan Williams

Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself. — Iris Murdoch

We are a society of excuses, shame and blame; we avoid accountability and often project our responsibility when involving domestic violence. — Asa Don Brown

We can't win the world with weapons or violence.
We can win the world with love and practice of nonviolence. — Debasish Mridha

We will not go quietly away. If in the future that requires violence — Richard Dawkins

Domestic violence is frequently excused when alcohol and other substances are involved. — Asa Don Brown

The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour. — Mahatma Gandhi