Against Quote by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“violence doesn't stop merely by saying, 'we'll act based on love', because that can become just an idea that gets absorbed into the system.”

— David Bohm

When we judge others we contribute to violence.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Violence can behave like a disease. That insight gives a different frame of reference that is designed to take the judgment out of it,…

— Steven James

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible…

— Carroll Quigley

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

— Henri Nouwen

That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in .

— Paul Watson

What we vision we guide as violence

— Anonymous

Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.

— Parker J. Palmer

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

— Anonymous

Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.

— James S.A. Corey

We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.

— Mairead Corrigan