Doe Quote by Leo Tolstoy

Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the…

— Pierre Bourgault

Violence is the ultimate human degradation.

— Ramsey Clark

All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence...the…

— Andre Trocme

“violence cannot be everlasting. Sooner or later it has to go, if not through wisdom, definitely through decrepitude, which comes on with years, whether…

— R.K. Narayan

The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural…

— Steven Pinker

We have become blind to the alternatives to violence.

— Wendell Berry

For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that…

— Steven Pinker

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

People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice…

— Steven Pinker

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

— Anonymous

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

— Chris Hedges

Using violence does not achieve much,but peace achieves many......

— Melchor Lim