Quote by James Dale Davidson

“Organisms are selected to deploy violence only in circumstances where the expected benefits outweigh the expected costs.”

— Steven Pinker

“Violence is a tool. It is meant to shock. To change. Instead, they normalize and celebrate it. And create a culture of exploitation.”

— Pierce Brown

“Of all human collective activities, the one most difficult to organise is violence.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Violence is compelling and ineffective, it can be ascertained, as one becomes an expert at it.”

— Patricia Dsouza

For mass struggles, nonviolence is essential.

— Bhagat Singh

“Violence cannot remove violence... Violence breeds more violence and hate.”

— Jeffrey A. White

“So holding many factors constant, we find that living in a civilization reduces one’s chances of being a victim of violence fivefold.”

— Steven Pinker

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than…

— Katherine Dunn

“When the payoff for organizing violence at a large scale tumbles, the payoff from violence at a smaller scale is likely to jump. Violence…

— James Dale Davidson

Violence multiplies violence.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Violence diminishes our humanity.

— Coretta Scott King

Violence is a good tool to control people.

— Faizu