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The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace. — George W. Bush

Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power ... — Hannah Arendt

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror — Carl Jung

The fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun. — Hannah Arendt

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

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

As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology. — Donald Trump

The violence of power is unacceptable only when we see it in action. — Olivier Razac

The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness. — Samuel Johnson

violence is a man so you have the power to lock him up for ever — Mike Castro

Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness. — Rollo May

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love. — Martin Luther King Jr.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again. — Malcolm X

Violence is the power of the state; imagination and non-violence the power of civil society. — Rebecca Solnit

Non-violence is more powerful than violence. Nature eliminates violent animals bit by bit. — Amit Ray

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration ... — Seneca The Younger

The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of women. — Frederick Lenz

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. — E.B. White

I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong. — Kathy Reichs

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. — Kenneth Kaunda

Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence. — Claudius Claudianus

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence. — Don DeLillo

Unfortunately, violence has a way of overpowering even the strongest of wills — Kenneth Eade

Power, privilege, and violence are not, and never were, strictly Southern issues in America. — Nate Powell

He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master. — Thomas Aquinas

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

We all know the protocol. But more powerful than our protocol is our grooming to believe in something more. — Danielle Valenilla

Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it. — Hannah Arendt

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

He gave an impression of coiled power, a contained violence that if released, would explode with terrifying intensity. — Ilona Andrews

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness. — Lenny Bruce

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. — Adrienne Rich

The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All. — Hannah Arendt

Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital. — Edmund Morris

He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself. — Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

Sometimes violence is necessary to prevent even more violence, I concluded, almost as if it were an epiphany. — Zack Love

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence. — C. Wright Mills

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill. — Thomas Sowell

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence. — Adolf Hitler

Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design. — Jacob Appelbaum

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong. — Euripides

The pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence ... — Jane Bennett

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States. — John Abizaid

Violence as a way of gaining power ... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security ... — Alfred Adler

Where a person has no control, he will turn to violence; either to attain control, or as an alternative to it. — Charlie Herrick

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now. — Samantha Power

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