Accepting Quote by Edgar Friedenberg

I think violence can never be justified. At the same time, nobody’s culture or beliefs should be insulted, that’s not something I can accept…

— Abbas Kiarostami

No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.

— Gloria Steinem

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

— Dan Simmons

Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can…

— Gloria Steinem

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

— Alexandra Paul

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

— Chris Hedges

Violence is totally accepted in this country.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being…

— Richard Wright

Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.

— Norm MacDonald

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

— Ron Paul

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