Chosen Quote by Gene Sharp

It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all…

— Edmund Burke

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional…

— Alfred Adler

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

“This violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.”

— Paulo Freire

Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.

— Cesar Chavez

Confidence comes from victory, but strength comes from the struggle.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Violence is not confidence, and terror is not mastery.”

— Timothy Snyder

For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely…

— Xenophon

Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence…

— Russell Brand

People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to…

— Bertrand Russell

Violence often brings about momentary results.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.

— Kathy Reichs