Quotes on the topic: Violence


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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.


Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.


There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.


In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.


War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.


Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.


They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it.


It's not an anti-sex trip. Like, we're taking sex, which is probably another half of American entertainment, sex and violence, and we're projecting it, and we're saying this is the way everything is right now.


Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.


Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.


Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.


The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.


When you live in a city, as I do, where violence is really in the streets, and people die every day, there's nothing funny about it.


Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.


The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.


The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.


Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.


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.


My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.


Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.