Bases Quote by Jeff Cooper

If you want to be a civilised man, first you have to be a non-violent man! If you want to be a civilised country,…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.

— Lena Headey

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

— John Zerzan

There's no reason to be non-violent. There's no challenge unless you are living for people.

— Cesar Chavez

A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery.…

— Frank Herbert

My whole access into culture was violent. Violence is something I understand. Don't like it, don't condone it, but I sure understand where it…

— Henry Rollins

Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will behave differently…

— Paul Bloom

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

— Cesar Chavez

I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.

— Cleve Jones

Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.

— William Kunstler