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Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect…

— Hannah Arendt

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of…

— Denis Diderot

Power depends ultimately on physical force. By teaching people that violence is wrong (except, of course, when the system itself uses violence via the…

— Theodore Kaczynski

Although violence and the use of force may appear powerful and decisive, their benefits are short-lived. Violence can never bring a lasting and long…

— Dalai Lama

Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.

— Hannah Arendt

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

— Theodor Adorno

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration ...

— Seneca the Younger

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it…

— Bhagat Singh

“Violence and strength are the same thing. In all the history of all the worlds before this one, and in all the history of…

— Scott Sigler

Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.

— Rollo May

“Unfortunately, violence has a way of overpowering even the strongest of wills”

— Kenneth Eade