You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.

We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

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

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

Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.

Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.

I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.

Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.

I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.

The weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy.

A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence.

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?

The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.

Bullying and violence that exists in someone can also be inherent in a nation without us knowing it.

Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go.

Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

Humanity happy, I get benefit. Humanity in state of trouble, or violence, I cannot escape from that.

Violence is never the answer but sometimes, like with cockroaches, it is the only possible response.

If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.

There shouldn't be any violence in hip-hop. You're getting free clothes. Basically, it's free money.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.

Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.

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

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.

He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.

The only thing worse than domestic violence or abuse is being accused of it when you haven't done it.

It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence

How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?

Anyone who endorses violence, hatred or oppression is not welcome in America and never, ever will be!

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

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