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

Stanley went on, highly dangerous, fanatical and additictied to violence'- Blimey Fred, is it your mother writing this? They seem to know you so well — Jonathan Stroud

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

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

Random violence is incredibly infectious. — Nicholas D. Kristof

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty. — Seamus Heaney

Every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. (23-24) — Jean Vanier

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

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

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

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. — Norman O. Brown

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

It is when we finally realize the futility of violence and the invalidity of war will we, the people of this world finally wake up! — Avijeet Das

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

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

Poverty is curable, but it's just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity. — Tom Morello

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

Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act. — Walter Kirn

Violence is a calm that disturbs you. — Jean Genet

A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made. — Steven Galloway

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

The fact is that violence gives you a rush. — Penn Jillette

Violence is the fear to other's ideals. — Mahatma Gandhi

Violence is not the answer but neither is peace. — Roxane Gay

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

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

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

War is a terrible, bloody thing. — Katlyn Charlesworth

One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence. — Geoff Mulgan

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

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 is a form of cinematic entertainment. — Quentin Tarantino

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

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

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

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

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

Non-violence is a good policy when conditions permit. — Nelson Mandela

There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people. — Bryant McGill

The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation, — Jens Stoltenberg

I think America's obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness. — Jeff Lemire

Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending. — Tom Stoppard

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

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

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

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov

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

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

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence. — David Graeber

What we thrive on is hatred and violence; if we were a peaceable people we would have peace tomorrow. — Henry Miller

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

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

"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it. — Sydney J. Harris

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

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence. — Newton Lee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Physical love is unthinkable without violence. — Milan Kundera

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us. — Thomas Merton

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

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

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

A regime which is nominally liberal can be oppressive in reality. A regime which acknowledges its violence might have more genuine humanity. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

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

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

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

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence. — Helen Garner

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

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

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

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

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

Peace is a deeper reality than violence."
p. 231 — Stanley Hauerwas

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

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

Violence in any form is a tragic expression of our unmet needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

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