Appeals Quote by Hannah Arendt

You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use.

— Jerry Vlasak

Although violence and the use of force may appear powerful and decisive, their benefits are short-lived. Violence can never bring a lasting and long…

— Dalai Lama

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

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends.…

— Albert Bandura

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible…

— Carroll Quigley

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few…

— Timothy Garton Ash

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

— Edward Kennedy

“The whole concept of "violence" is flawed from the get-go, for it makes no distinction between legitimate and illegitimate force. The use of the…

— James Bowman

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

— Gloria Steinem

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as…

— Edgar Friedenberg

I have always taken the view that sometimes war may be justified, as police action can be justified, to protect the weak and vulnerable…

— N. T. Wright