Violence is not power, but the absence of power.

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

— Sister Souljah

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a…

— Kenneth Kaunda

When money disappears, we soon understand the power of absence.

— Mason Cooley

Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt,…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Violence only attacks the body, but it is non-violence that has the power to influence the soul and reshape it towards a peaceful future.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

— Kenneth Kaunda

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

— John Abizaid

“Violence is the power of the state; imagination and non-violence the power of civil society.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“The violence of power is unacceptable only when we see it in action.”

— Olivier Razac

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is…

— Colin Greenwood

Joking about violence is not funny.

— Perez Hilton