Country Quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

My own view is that violence is a part of classical Haida literature - and of every mythology everywhere, so far as I can…

— Robert Bringhurst

Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.

— Stephen A. Diamond

No one must use the name of God to commit violence. To kill in the name of God is a grave sacrilege. To discriminate…

— Pope Francis

Violence is the language of the unheard.

— Martin Luther King III

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

While we may not consider the way we talk to be 'violent,' our words often lead to hurt and pain, whether for others or…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man is a…

— Sam Peckinpah

“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

Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be…

— Delphine de Vigan

Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

— Thomas Merton

Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.

— Mahatma Gandhi