Acting Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

I believe that the basic nature of human beings is gentle and compassionate. It is therefore in our own interest to encourage that nature,…

— Dalai Lama

It's not that tens of millions of people all want to be violent. But they share the worldview that then, at its extreme, gives…

— Tony Blair

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

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies…

— Mahatma Gandhi

How our availability, our showing up, our presence, leaves us open to that violence. I think it's a question of language, as it arrives…

— Claudia Rankine

“There are very subtle shades of violence, I can assure you. A civilization that renounces the possibility of resorting to violence in thought or…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

— Steven Pinker

Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities…

— Martin Scorsese

The measures and acts which show us violently disposed towards the outer world can never stay without a violent reaction on ourselves.

— Richard Wagner

“We live in dramatic times. Violent confrontations are erupting in all parts of the world. Instinctively we feel that it does not have to…

— Dominique De Menil

“Society thinks of violent acts as manifestations of evil or immorality. We're told we have ultimate control over our own behavior, that each and…

— Tess Gerritsen

“Violence and strength are the same thing. In all the history of all the worlds before this one, and in all the history of…

— Scott Sigler