Causes Quote by Jacques Ellul

We try to show that violence has a consequence - when you create violence, it turns against you.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The violence of the Left is symbolic, the injuries are not intended. The violence of the Right is real - directed at people, designed…

— George Carlin

There is an international disease which feeds on the notion that if you have a cause to defend, you can use any means to…

— Richard M. Nixon

“Violence is one way to silence people, to deny their voice and their credibility, to assert your right to control over their right to…

— Rebecca Solnit

If one's cause is supported by sound reasoning, there is no point in using violence. It is those who have no motive other than…

— Dalai Lama

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

— Chris Hedges

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

— Henri Nouwen

In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means.

— Cesar Chavez

“Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right and another wrong.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

— William Blum