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Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Love as Thought is Truth.
Love as Action is Right Conduct.
Love as Understanding is Peace.
Love as Feeling is Non-violence. — Sathya Sai Baba

Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say — Martin Luther

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience. — Gwen Moore

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster. — Mahatma Gandhi

No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence. — Yitzhak Rabin

Just because your down does not mean you have to be out. As long as you have a voice left~Use it to speak out against all Abuse,Violence & Injustice! — Timothy Pina

Violence is formed by the scarcity of nature, and will stay with us as long as we live in scarcity. — Haroutioun Bochnakian

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same. — Brian K. Vaughan

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense. — Richard Dawkins

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition. — Dan Simmons

I do show violence as entertainment. Clearly, I'd be a liar if I said I didn't. — Nick Love

I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that. — Karin Slaughter

Never on me let such wrath lay hold, as the wrath you cherish, you whose valor causes harm! — A.T. Murray

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons. — Dalai Lama

As long as it is assumed that war is always an available option, we will not be forced to imagine any alternative to war. — Stanley Hauerwas

It didn't take much prompting for Cariocas who were sick of living with violence to advocate violence as a solution. — Juliana Barbassa

I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood. — Sylvia Plath

As part of the healing process, change your perception of yourself from "victim" to that of "advocate" and "survivor. — Don Easton

Violence is violence and can in no way be misconstrued as discipline under any circumstance cultural or otherwise. — Aysha Taryam

We raise predators by treating children as prey. — Stefan Molyneux

Every gesture was one of disorder and violence, as if a lioness had come into the room. — Anais Nin

So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people. — Howard Zinn

Advocating sexual repression as a solution to violence against women ends up mobilizing women around their fears rather than their visions. — Alice Echols

As tears fall from her face
she begins to sway
Love shouldn't hurt this way. — Diana Rasmussen

We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue. — Eve Ensler

Violence is as American as cherry pie. - RAP (HUBERT GEROLD) BROWN — J.D. Robb

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances. — Takeshi Kitano

It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist. — Gary Bauer

I am a terrorist and nihilist in theory as the others are with their weapons. Theoretical violence, not truth, is the only resource left us. — Jean Baudrillard

Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations. — Ilya Yashin

As labor strife increased and the economy faltered, the general level of violence rose. — Erik Larson

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master? — Walter Rodney

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

If a violent person wishes to attack us, let us send him a gentle phrase as this will defuse his violence. — Samael Aun Weor

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

Government is violence masquerading as answers to strangers' problems using other peoples' money. — Dan McCall

A person who believes in fighting and does not regard it as violence, though it is violence, is here being asked to kill. — Mahatma Gandhi

A weapon is only an extension of one's own persona; as lethal or useless as the person wielding it. — Anurag Shourie

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known. — Ayn Rand

As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it's highly unlikely we'll ever have peace. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses. — Rembrandt

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism. — Antonia Fraser

Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed. — Jonny Steinberg

I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. — Nelson Mandela

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence. — Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom has more often been lost in small steps by progressive incrementalism, than it has been by catastrophic upheavals such as violence or war. — James Madison

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity. — Billy Graham

people cling to folly as if it were their most prized possession, defending it, sometimes with violence, against the possibility of wisdom. It — Richard Russo

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform. — Mahatma Gandhi

You know what worries me about the enemy? It's the violence. It is almost as if he thinks he can solve every problem this way. — Chris Cleave

Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects. — Alexis De Tocqueville

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

When you live in a city, as I do, where violence is really in the streets, and people die every day, there's nothing funny about it. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Proximity, I have learned, is often as effective as violence. — David Liss

The point of racism is to dehumanize those targeted by the racism. Violence as a reaction to injustice provides ammunition to racists. — The Prophet Of Life

Often things are as bad as they seem. — Sheldon B. Kopp

The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently. — Mahatma Gandhi

Either well succeed, or we wont succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not no violence. — George W. Bush

The pandemic of violence always gets explained as anything but gender, anything but what would seem to be the broadest explanatory pattern of all. — Rebecca Solnit

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf. — Thomas Paine

I personally don't like depressing subjects, people say, as if mortality is a lifestyle choice, disease and violence and sorrow a matter of taste. — Sarah Moss

You could only rebel against it by secret disobedience or, at most, by isolated acts of violence such as killing somebody or blowing something up. — George Orwell

If nothing else, Malus Darkblade, you can be counted on to react to adversity with as much violence as physically possible- Tzarkan — Dan Abnett

Violence has to become a part of your thinking. It makes you cautious, suspicious as hell, and lengthens your life expectancy. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie. — H. Rap Brown

As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone. — Brian Celio

There's no such thing as "just a domestic". — Patrick Stewart

You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we've had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often innocent bystanders get caught up in it. — Iain Duncan Smith

Violence stops thought. Hence its popularity as a pain-killer. — Mason Cooley

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

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

Show me life as I've learned it:blood and guts,violence and sex. — Charlee Jacob

There is nothing in anything that I have ever written that could be reasonably construed as an incitement to violence against anyone. — Robert Spencer

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

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

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

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

Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true. — Stefan Molyneux

Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life. — Wendell Berry

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence. — Frank Herbert

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence. — Joan Baez

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. — Bertrand Russell

Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational. — Samantha Morton

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. — R.D. Laing

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

In my sick brain, gruesome violence and comedy go as hand-to-hand together as anything else in the world. — Seth Rogen

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

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine. — Maggie Nelson

Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore. — Lou Reed

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams. — Minor White

Violence can read like poetry. You just have to describe the act as if you're in love with the way your characters bleed. — F.K. Preston

I won't make games with senseless violence. There has to be a reason for it, such as war. — Hideo Kojima

P40- this violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it. — Paulo Freire

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

As It Ever Was ... So Shall It Never Be Penal Substitutionary Atonement Theory and Violence in The Cabin in the Woods — Anthony R. Mills