Able Quote by Pankaj Mishra

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

— Robert Crumb

“Politics is almost never violent toward the people who are actually making the political decisions.”

— Mur Lafferty

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

— Edward Kennedy

You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use.

— Jerry Vlasak

“Violence is the ultimate boundary force on behavior; this, if you can understand how the logic of violence will change, you can usefully predict…

— James Dale Davidson

Politics now is really only about self-interest, which means it has violence built into it because your self-interest is going to collide with the…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It’s attractive because it’s simple, it’s direct, it’s almost always available as…

— Corey, James S. A

“Generally speaking, by the way, that is the moral of the opponents of violence in politics: they renounce violence when it comes to introducing…

— Leon Trotsky

To be violent is the ultimate laziness. War always seems a great effort, but it is the easy way. And false non-violence is also…

— Peter Brook

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

— Brian Aldiss

Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse…

— Dalai Lama

Whatever your objective in life may be, never use violence to get it! Violence belongs to the Land of Evil; once you enter there,…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan