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I'm very anti-domestic violence. — Ronda Rousey

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

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death. — Billy Graham

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

I chose not to fight it. Eating them ... is my revenge. — J.H. Myn

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

Random violence is incredibly infectious. — Nicholas D. Kristof

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? — Joan Baez

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

Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. — Cormac McCarthy

Violence and fraud can create no right. — Algernon Sidney

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

I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry. — Russell Simmons

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

Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something. — Gabrielle Giffords

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

Nausea and panic rose in my throat. I had killed a man. — A.B. Shepherd

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

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

Violence is a calm that disturbs you. — Jean Genet

If we're going to address trafficking in our country we have to address poverty, racism & gender based violence. — Rachel Lloyd

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence. — Noam Chomsky

We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us. — Winston S. Churchill

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

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

Violence, especially if you are a woman, is not something spoken about with ease. — Kay Redfield Jamison

As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that, — Gene Sharp

[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap. — Leslie Morgan Steiner

TV is a pornographic cacophony of violence, death obsession, screams, gunfire and drama. You think it's fine because you are damaged. — Bryant McGill

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

We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people. — Huey Newton

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

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

We are flawed creatures with explosive feelings that subconsciously aspire to be non-violent sociopaths. — Jayme K.

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

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

My random acts of violence weren't random. They were premeditated. — Christopher Titus

No man is a great man if he used violence to achieve his goals! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Violence is the instinctive response to fear. — Margaret Millar

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

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

We can't allow domestic violence to become a campaign issue. — Sandy Adams

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

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

When there is violence against any person in society, because he or she is different, it threatens us all. Only by speaking out are any of us safe. — Madeleine M. Kunin

intelligence, its tenets those of division, regression, hatred, violence and persecution. In — Stefan Zweig

If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits. — Edward Kennedy

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

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

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

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop. — Yoko Ono

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

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

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

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. — Ed Koch

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

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

I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another. — Timothy Findley

Physical love is unthinkable without violence. — Milan Kundera

Happiness is a series of grains of sand spread out in a desert of violence and anguish. — Sebastien De Castell

Love heals violence and all its sources — Bryant McGill

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

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

Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened. — Walter Dean Myers

Hey ladies, I'm willing to do my part to end domestic violence by posting a selfie online. Some might call me a hero — Nev Schulman

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

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

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

There is life after abuse. This is mine. — Lindsay Fischer

Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence. — Ian MacKaye

I'm not someone who is a fan of a lot of violence. — Giancarlo Esposito

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

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

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

Violence diminishes our humanity. — Coretta Scott King

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight. — John Lennon

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

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

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

It is seldom that domestic violence is an isolated episode; rather it is comprised of a number of episodes over an extended period of time. — Asa Don Brown

When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling. — Elie Wiesel

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