Acting Quote by Barack Obama

Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities…

— Martin Scorsese

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

Many people today agree that we need to reduce violence in our society. If we are truly serious about this, we must deal with…

— Anonymous

I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at…

— Oscar Romero

Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able…

— Pope John Paul II

Yet the basic fact remains: we live in a world marked by violence, and if we want to protect others, we sometimes have to…

— Eric Greitens

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace…

— Anonymous

In dealing with those nations that break rules and laws, I believe that we must develop alternatives to violence that are tough enough to…

— Barack Obama

War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.

— Wesley Clark

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

We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the…

— Marian Wright Edelman

I am ever unwilling that [peace] should be disturbed as long as the rights and interests of the nations can be preserved. But whensoever…

— Thomas Jefferson