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"The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted." »Ellen Glasgow
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"If you are a member of a religion which has violence, killings and invading other countries in its history, it is a great shame! Leave it! If a religion is peaceful and innocent, you can never find violence in its history! No good faith carries sword!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence." »Joan Baez
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"Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love." »Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964
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"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms." »Robert Heinlein
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"My thinking had been opened up wide in Mecca. I wrote long letters to my friends, in which I tried to convey to them my new insights into the American black man's struggle and his problems as well as the depths of my search for truth and justice. “I've had enough of someone else's propaganda,” I had written to these friends. “I am for truth, no matter who tells it. I am for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I am a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” The American white man's press called me the angriest Negro in America. I wouldn't deny that charge; I spoke exactly as I felt. I believe in anger. I believe it is a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself. I am for violence if non-violence means that we continue postponing or even delaying a solution to the American black man's problem. White man hates to hear anybody, especially a black man, talk about the crime that the white man perpetrated on the black man. But let me remind you that when the white man came into this country, he certainly wasn't demonstrating non-violence." »malcolm X, Autobiography of malcolm x
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"The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity." »G Gaia
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"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." »Isaac Asimov
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"Violence is the diplomacy of the incompetent." »Isaac Asimov, Prelude to Foundation, said by Hari Seldon
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"There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors." »Frank Herbert
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"It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way." »Julius K. Nyerere
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"non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom" »H. G. Wells
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"Anger and Violence are the last refuge of the incompetent." »GSAN
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"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind." »Mahtma Gandhi
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"Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence." »Francis Jeffrey
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"Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field." »John Gregory Dunne, Nothing Lost
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"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
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"For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted." »Frantz Fanos
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"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"One must do violence to the object of one's desire when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater." »Marquis de Sade
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"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, Lives
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"This calls for a very special plan of psychology and extreme violence" »The Young Ones
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"Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence." »Hebrew Proverb
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"The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it." »Bill Cosby
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"Sword and fist are the instruments of primitive; non-violence is the instrument of developed man!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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