The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system.

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

Feeling sympathy and searching for explanations isn't the same as believing that the violence is justified.

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence.

Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.

I don't go to things because I want to see violence, I go to things because I want to see them handled well.

It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.

I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.

I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me.

Refraining from violence is not a sign of weakness in one's faith but a sign that one's faith is unshakeable

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive and yet least-recognized human rights abuses in the world.

The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about.

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

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

This is not violence, this is legitimate resistance. This is our people's right to resist Israeli occupation.

Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.

The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.

The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.

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

My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.

It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.

What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.

If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play.

Until we eliminate the mentality of violence, we will not find the harmony within ourselves we're looking for.

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.

The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.

I can't remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I'm not an idiot.

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.

I don't support violence and I don't support negative energy. I don't support people putting other people down.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.

For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Disarmed citizens encourage crime and violence. Armed citizens encourage criminals to find a safer line of work.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.

I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry.

Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.

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