Commitment Quote by Cori Bush

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

Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and…

— Woodrow Wilson

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.

— Thomas Merton

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

Violence is totally accepted in this country.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

We must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations, acting…

— Barack Obama

A universal renunciation of violence requires the commitment of the whole of society. These are not matters of government but matters of State; not…

— Federico Mayor Zaragoza

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground…

— Edward Gibbon

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

— Anonymous

The solution to violence in America is the acceptance of reality

— Gavin de Becker

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

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