Diminish Quote by Coretta Scott King

Violence is the ultimate human degradation.

— Ramsey Clark

The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural…

— Steven Pinker

Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.

— Pope John Paul II

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

Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.

— Parker J. Palmer

The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.

— Steven Pinker

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

— Nicolas Gomez Davila

For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that…

— Steven Pinker

Violence does not resolve. It always leads to more violence.

— Mark Kurlansky

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

— Steven Pinker

Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.

— Petra Kelly

In violence, we forget who we are

— Mary McCarthy