Accepting Quote by Malcolm X

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

— Malcolm X

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

— Greg Iles

“It is injustice to determine the brutality of an action because of the victim or the criminal.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“If you don't recognize your own crimes, there's no impediment to continuing them. There's a pretty dramatic example of that right at this moment.…

— Noam Chomsky

I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed and humiliated, disrespected and…

— James Gilligan

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

— Benjamin Tucker

If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed ot tortured, then you shouldn't condone such behaviour towards anyone, be they human or…

— Moby

The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.

— Werner Herzog

Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as…

— Edgar Friedenberg

Anyone who commits an act of violence to themselves or others is worth consideration in the sense that there must be something that brought…

— Rebecca Hall

It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.

— Yann Martel