Compassion Quote by Nhat Hanh

Violence does not resolve. It always leads to more violence.

— Mark Kurlansky

Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They…

— Wendell Berry

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

— Leo Tolstoy

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

— Dan Simmons

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being…

— Richard Wright

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence…

— Russell Brand

There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

— Leo Tolstoy

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