My position has always been to avoid violence to avoid…

“Violence is already active here; it is built into the very structure od the existing society. If we seek a world in which men…

— Barbara Deming

Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low…

— Mark Twain

Unless we cut the world population there is no way to avoid violence. People are hungry, people are starving, dying. When somebody is hungry…

— Rajneesh

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

— Malcolm X

Peace is not just the mere absence of violence or disturbance. It's when there is a possibility of conflict, but you deliberately avoid violence…

— Dalai Lama

In prison, the gloves were off, the comforting rhetoric and rationalization were absent. To use a phrase from Plato, I saw the laws of…

— David Dellinger

Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful and full of provocation than when the burden of it was upon the shoulders of…

— John Owen

“So this is the way we live now: conditioned by the awareness that no North Korean provocation, however egregious, can be confronted, lest it…

— Christopher Hitchens

Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without the slightest…

— Orison Swett Marden

The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very…

— Jeremy Brett

After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be…

— Carl von Clausewitz

I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I…

— Michel Houellebecq

A warrior is always aware of what is worth fighting for. He does not go into combat over things that do not concern him,…

— Paulo Coelho

The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Lay not the blame on me, O sailor, but on the winds. By nature I am as calm and safe as the land itself,…

— Aesop