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

When we empower Iran, then get ready for more unrest and more murder and more violence in the Middle East. — Chris Christie

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. — Arthur Conan Doyle

It's time for an end to the Republican-on-Republican violence. — Rick Scott

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence. — Malcolm X

Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity. — Pope Francis

Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long. — Mark Kingwell

We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings. — Barack Obama

At that time, there was only one thing better that a good fight, and that was having a good fight and getting paid for it. — Stephen Richards

To be free from violence means everything to me. It is more important to me than sex, food, position, for this thing is corrupting me. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The decisive means for politics is violence. — Max Weber

There was anger for a while, and then there was something else, that was like silence but had an energy and violence of its own. — Rachel Joyce

The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy. — Adam Smith

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. — Mahatma Gandhi

When I tell stories about Iraq, the ones people react to are always the stories of violence. This is strange for me. — Phil Klay

There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fire is often the weapon of choice for the insane. — Douglas Preston

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind. — Mike Norton

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

It wasn't enough violence for him. He wanted to do damage to something else. Preferably to something with an aquiline Roman profile that said ouch. — Thea Harrison

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

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society. — Luke Ford

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

Nothing remains for me but to assure you in the most animated language of the violence of my affection. — Jane Austen

The only hope of transforming the world from the 'tsunami of violence' is for each of us to become the change we wish to see in the world. — Arun Manilal Gandhi

Affectionate violence. For when a hug just won't do. That's a Hallmark card for you. — Lauren Beukes

The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills. — George Horace Lorimer

All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it. — Colum McCann

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

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive. — Anthony Burgess

Education is a vaccine for violence. — Edward James Olmos

It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it. — Zainab Salbi

A person who is not inwardly prepared for the use of violence against him is always weaker than the person committing the violence. There — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

He had conquered murder only to be faced with war. There were no laws for that. — T.H. White

Sighing heavily, for he disliked violence generally and murder in particular, Cabal set off to commit violent murder. — Jonathan L. Howard

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years? — Richard King

He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence — Jack Kerouac

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

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence. — Aung San Suu Kyi

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

Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography. — Andrea Dworkin

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

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

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate. — William Tecumseh Sherman

I do not blame him
for not knowing
the gentleness of my soul.

When I only showed him,
how violently
I loved. — Saiber

The mech hadn't been designed for violence, but it was suited for it. That made her and it the same. — James S.A. Corey

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons. — Aung San Suu Kyi

I don't believe in anything. I'm just here for the violence. — Banksy

Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all. — Mahatma Gandhi

Reclusiveness itself may be a kind of violence. It leaves an abyss for us to throw our fantasies into. — Supervert

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

You can't transform a society for the better with violence, Ashala. Only with ideas. — Ambelin Kwaymullina

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

Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love. — Jane Goodall

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence. — Terry Pratchett

The unnatural ways we substitute for the natural prove not enough and soon there must be more and more unnaturalness, more and more violence. — Lucy Freeman

Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason. — Abhijit Naskar

You directed toward yourself a violence that you did not feel toward others. For them you reserved all your patience and tolerance. You — Edouard Leve

But no matter how much evil I see, I think it's important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness. — Robert Uttaro

They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice. — Malcolm X

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.
(Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13, 3 May 1919) — Mahatma Gandhi

Every creative act is an act of hypocrisy and violence. You may have to think about it for a while, but I am sure you can discover your own. — Mary Ruefle

I was imprisoned in Missouri in 1854 for preaching the gospel to Negroes, though I was never subjected to violence. — Hiram Rhodes Revels

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

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence. — Stanley Kubrick

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

Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing. — Lena Headey

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence. — Brian De Palma

You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they both are dead. — Snoop Dogg

Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game? — J.G. Ballard

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

Is this something new, having people stomp on you? Is it what I need to do for your pleasure? — Frank Zappa

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. — Mahatma Gandhi

The only antidote for the corrosive poison of violence is finding peace within yourself. — Christopher Paolini

Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more. — Martin Scorsese

On one level, a roomful of men is always a dangerous thing. Competition is usually in the air, so the potential for violence is always nearby. — Brennan Manning

Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another. — Dalai Lama

Is desecration teaching?
Is violence knowledge? Is haunting
a kind of life? I had no model
for rebirth. No second coming blueprint. — Amber Dawn

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

Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder? — Mahatma Gandhi

Naw, rudeness is for amateurs. I prefer going right from polite conversation to extreme violence. — Stephen Schochet

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

Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended. — N.K. Jemisin

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

I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself. — Yoko Ono

When love is the trend, there is no room for violence and war. — Gabrielle Bernstein

His worst fantasy her reality
he pulls the strings
does unspeakable things
A sadistic entrance
for his acceptance — Diana Rasmussen

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

In protesting for your rights in any form you may, but it's only good, If they can understand your problems and feelings and not only to judge you. — Auliq Ice

That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

I ain't the type for begging, I am not the type to plead. If she don't change those evil ways, I'm gonna make her bleed. — Frank Zappa

Violence was what the military existed for. Controlled violence directed against appropriate targets. — Orson Scott Card

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

It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war. — Mahatma Gandhi

I sense that you are nearby, son and daughter of the Almari bloodline. I will soon come for you both. — Eric Mrozek

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions. — Lech Walesa