America Quote by Colin Firth

Violence is the language of the unheard.

— Martin Luther King III

Violence multiplies violence.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

— Thomas Merton

“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

“Language is the proper way to communicate, followed closely by five balled up fingers forming a fist and flying at a face. Violence is…

— Jarod Kintz

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

— Adrienne Rich

When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.

— Elie Wiesel

Words like violence

— Depeche Mode

Speech is not violence. The Left conflates the two in order to justify its own violent reactions to differing points of view.

— Michael J. Knowles

We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case…

— Joel Coen

It is no solution to define words as violence or prejudice as oppression, and then by cracking down on words or thoughts pretend that…

— Jonathan Rauch

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn't merely organized…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti