Acts of violence Quote by Anonymous

We try to show that violence has a consequence - when you create violence, it turns against you.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

— Henri Nouwen

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

— Leo Tolstoy

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

— Leo Tolstoy

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

— Steven Pinker

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still…

— Thomas A. Edison

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

Once causes are determined, then there is talk of "social injustice" and the privileged begin to resist.

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence…

— Russell Brand