Clouds Quote by Kenneth Kaunda

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

— Kenneth Kaunda

Violence is not power, but the absence of power.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect…

— Hannah Arendt

When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted political power.

— Cody Wilson

“Violence is the power of the state; imagination and non-violence the power of civil society.”

— Rebecca Solnit

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Power depends ultimately on physical force. By teaching people that violence is wrong (except, of course, when the system itself uses violence via the…

— Theodore Kaczynski

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

— Noam Chomsky

Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.

— Hannah Arendt

The violence is the violence. I understand that we're sometimes squeamish about it, but I think that strength needs to be called on once…

— Greg Bryk

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

Violence and force are the natural tools of failures, those unable to persuade or compromise.

— Frank Matobo