Authority Quote by Noam Chomsky

The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process,…

— Rowan Williams

No other advanced nation endures this kind of violence. None. Here in America, the murder rate is three times what it is in other…

— Barack Obama

We no longer have the public spheres available to be able to contest that violence. We don't see it in the mainstream media, we…

— Henry Giroux

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground…

— Edward Gibbon

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

— John Abizaid

We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level.

— Spike Lee

As a nation, we have been responsible for the murder of literally hundreds of thousands of people at home and abroad by fighting a…

— Milton Friedman

Under no circumstance must we allow anyone to incite violence against our nation. That is not acceptable.

— Shatrughan Sinha

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

Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the…

— Pierre Bourgault

Most Americans would say that they disapproved of violence. But what they really mean is that they believe it should be the monopoly of…

— Edgar Friedenberg