Absurd Quote by Noam Chomsky

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

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in…

— Noam Chomsky

“The notion that you can somehow defeat violence by submitting to it is simply a flight from fact. As I have said, it is…

— George Orwell

Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the…

— Anonymous

This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners. To respond…

— Tenzin Palmo

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

— Robert Crumb

“In some cases, however, limited violence against the dictatorship may be inevitable. Frustration and hatred of the regime may explode into violence. Or, certain…

— Gene Sharp

To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless,…

— Tariq Ali

The government has interpreted the peacefulness of the movement as a weakness: the people's non-violent policies have been taken as a green light for…

— Nelson Mandela

Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.

— Stafford Cripps

“Nonviolent struggle both requires and tends to produce a loss (or greater control) of fear of the government and its violent repression. That abandonment…

— Gene Sharp

Violence is intimidated by the carrier of violence

— Anonymous