A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.
Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
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.
I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
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.
Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
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.
Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.
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.
