Communication Quote by Marshall B. Rosenberg

Words like violence

— Depeche Mode

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

Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.

— Norm MacDonald

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn't merely organized…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Violence is part of everybody's life, whether you like or express it or not. My work utilises all the energies that I have, and…

— Cornelia Parker

Words aren't hurting anybody. Words are not causing any damage, not expressly and not directly. But we're so focused on the words.

— Rush Limbaugh

It is no solution to define words as violence or prejudice as oppression, and then by cracking down on words or thoughts pretend that…

— Jonathan Rauch

Some hurtful words are not always meant to hurt us but to express the pains some people are going through.

— Terry Mark

I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.

— Gina Carano

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

— Thomas Merton

There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the…

— Parker J. Palmer

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

— Jean Genet