Awareness Quote by Adolph Gottlieb

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

— Amartya Sen

Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

— Marshall McLuhan

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

— Jon Glaser

“Seeds of destruction take root in the human heart, and even among those who long for peace, they call to our darker instincts and…

— Victoria Armour-Hileman

All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“There are very subtle shades of violence, I can assure you. A civilization that renounces the possibility of resorting to violence in thought or…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is…

— Robert Kennedy

Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim…

— Dalai Lama

Violence is the most elemental truth of life. It's the central shaper of history, the ultimate determiner of whether A or B is going…

— James Carlos Blake

“Over the years I had convinced myself that brutality required motive, but this is a fool’s deceit. Cruelty is the motive; religion and politics…

— Lee Thomas

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

— Henri Nouwen