“ The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. ”
- Joan Baez- Copy
“ Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
“ It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
“ 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. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
“ The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore. ”
- Robert J. Sawyer- Copy
“ It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state. ”
- Thomas Elliot- Copy
“ Democracy don't rule the world, you better get that in your head. Tthis world is ruled by violence, but I guess that's better left unsaid. ”
- Bob Dylan- Copy
“ The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ”
- Max Stirner- Copy
“ Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. ”
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn- Copy
“ All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
“ I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
“ Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began. ”
- Lucretius- Copy
“ All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
“ The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. ”
- Joan Baez- Copy
“ I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. ”
- Edward Bond- Copy
“ Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
“ The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. … Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment . ”
- Rev. William Sloan Coffin Jr.- Copy
“ 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.- Copy
“ A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
“ I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. ”
- Hunter S. Thompson- Copy
“ Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. ”
- George F. Will- Copy
“ It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
“ Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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