They say : Violence is ... STOP DOING IT ...

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.


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

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.”

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.”

In violence, we forget who we are”

Nothing good ever comes of violence.”

Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does.”

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.”

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.”

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

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Mohandas Gandhi

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

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
Mohandas Gandhi

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
Mohandas Gandhi

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln


In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.
Thomas Jefferson


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.
Robert Frost

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
Jim Morrison

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
Sigmund Freud

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
Lao Tzu

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
George Washington

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

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

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Leo Tolstoy

 

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

 

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