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Mahatma Gandhi

I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence....I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witne

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense

Jean-Paul Sartre

It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name, it???s not at all right that you do not breathe a word about them to anyone, not even to your own soul, for fear of having to stand in judgement on yourself.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.

Ellen Glasgow

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Mahatma Gandhi

I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence....I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witne

Joan Baez

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

G Gaia

The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity.

Jesse Ventura

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Roger Kahn

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

Plutarch

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Frantz Fanos

For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.

Mahatma Gandhi

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Hebrew Proverb

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.

Marquis de Sade

One must do violence to the object of one's desire when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

Hunter S. Thompson

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Edgar A. Suter

Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens.

Bill Cosby

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Saint Augustine

Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

George Will

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Albert Einstein

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them

Albert Einstein

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

George Orwell

People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell

You sleep safe in your beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do you harm.

Indira Nehru Gandhi

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. (Handwritten statement found in her residence)

Robert J. Sawyer

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent.

Edward Koch

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

George Orwell

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Lewis S Feuer

Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.

Mark Z. Danielewski

Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So yo

General George Patton

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.

Lorraine Lee Cudmore

Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, cell biologists are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite symmetry, dramas of violence and death, mobility, self-sacrifice and, yes, rococo sex.

Ssu-ma Ch`ien

Military weapons are the means used by the Sage to punish violence and cruelty, to give peace to troublous times, to remove difficulties and dangers, and to succor those who are in peril. Every animal with blood in its veins and horns on its head will fig

R. D. Laing

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

Bertha von Suttner

The adherents of the old order have a powerful ally in the natural law of inertia inherent in humanity which is, as it were, a natural defense against change. Thus pacifism faces no easy struggle. The question of whether violence or law shall prevail betw

James Earl Jones

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.

Colin Greenwood

It is suggested that, in domestic violence at least, the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detection and punishment.

Maurice Godelier

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Eric Lustbader

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal.

Antonio Gramsci

In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period

Albert Einstein

As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives.

Alexander Hamilton

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects re

"non-ideological violence" <--> "Right-wing violence. -John Nutter

I don't like violence, but I'm very good at it.

Ego Gratification through Violence

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

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Violence is the diplomacy of the incompetent.

Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom

Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

This calls for a very special plan of psychology and extreme violence

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

"And we heard him exclaim/As he started to roam/ -Bob Violence/Chaykin

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.

It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

"(A)bort, (R)etry, (P)roject thoughts of massive violence."

"This calls for a subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." - Vyvyan, YOUNG ONES

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

"Oh, now we see the violence inherent in the system!" - Monty Python

"Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!" -Monty Python

"War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason." -Clausewitz

"Violence is the ultimate solution." -Dave's new roommate

"Gratuitous acts of senseless violence are MY forte." - Sam

"Sucker! Competitive violence, that's why you're here!" - Homer

"If I didn't hate violence, I'd kick you." -- Margaret

"There MUST be a way to cram more violence into 90 minutes." - Calvin

"Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!" --Dennis

"Vulcans do not approve of violence." -- Spock

"I'm a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence."

"Violence is just, where kindness is vain." -- Corneille

"Come and see the violence inherent in the system!" -Peasant

"There's a war on and we've no time for violence." -- Frank Burns

"Violence never solved anything." Try telling the Carthaginians.

"Violence never solved anything." --Genghis Khan

"Panicky violence does not a Probationer make."

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler woul

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

Affection cannot be manufactored or regulated by law. If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should be free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection, so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite to violence.

"Since then there have been 50 deaths by violence." Torqueman