Crime Quote by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Violence only begets violence when we allow it to. We always have a choice.”

— P.T. Denys

“While violence is necessary, it is not the only instrument for change. There are others just as good. But you must accept violence- you…

— F. Sionil José

“And the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.”

— Richard Siken

“Violence is not just an emotion, it is a culture. Some suffer in it, some are born into it and others cannot live without…

— Isabella Poretsis

“We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. We must move past indecision to action...If we do not act, we shall…

— Martin Luther King Jr. 1967

“Violence only attacks the body, but it is non-violence that has the power to influence the soul and reshape it towards a peaceful future.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“We're all violent. Especially when it concerns the ones we love. They're intimately connected, love and hate.”

— Tess Gerritsen

“...human beings as a species have never failed to find reasons to regard one another with fear and loathing and thus to offer violence…

— Jonathan Kirsch

“Over the years I had convinced myself that brutality required motive, but this is a fool’s deceit. Cruelty is the motive; religion and politics…

— Lee Thomas

“I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct.”

— Isaac Asimov

“The amount of violence against another human being we are willing to accept is a litmus test for our own freedom.”

— Diana Oestreich

“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