| "The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence." »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted." »Ellen Glasgow |
| "The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence." »Joan Baez |
| "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 |
| "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. |
| "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 |
| "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." »Isaac Asimov |
| "It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence." »Francis Jeffrey |
| "Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence." »Hebrew Proverb |
| "For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted." »Frantz Fanos |
| "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 |
| "Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary." »Mahatma Gandhi |
| "One must do violence to the object of one's desire when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater." »Marquis de Sade |
| "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." »Hunter S. Thompson |
| "The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it." »Bill Cosby |
| "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 |
| "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them" »Albert Einstein |
| "Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. violence and committee meetings." »George Will |
| "Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings." »George Will |
| "People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." »George Orwell |
| "If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. (Handwritten statement found in her residence)" »Indira Nehru Gandhi |
| "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| "Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men." »Saint Augustine |
| "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 |
| "Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation." »Lewis S Feuer |
| "The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose." »James Earl Jones |
| "Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings." »R. D. Laing |
| "It is suggested that, in domestic violence at least, the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detection and punishment." »Colin Greenwood |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
