Artisans Quote by Amartya Sen

“Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible…

— Alexander Berkman

Classifying and judging people promotes violence.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

— Anonymous

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

— Marshall McLuhan

Violence multiplies violence.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Violence isn't only bombs and bullets, it can be speaking words that dehumanize and looking away when someone needs you to lean in and…

— Diana Oestreich

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

— Edward Kennedy

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.

— Thomas Merton

“in the epoch of representation, assault rules. The regime of representation produces violence.”

— Barbara Bolt

Violence among all people is based on dissatisfaction, frustration and crushed ambition and people who don't know who to strike at and who to…

— John Henrik Clarke

“Violence is a tool. It is meant to shock. To change. Instead, they normalize and celebrate it. And create a culture of exploitation.”

— Pierce Brown

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being…

— Richard Wright