Action Quote by Pierre Bourgault

Violence diminishes our humanity.

— Coretta Scott King

In times of great necessity, violence is indispensable.

— Bhagat Singh

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible…

— Carroll Quigley

The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural…

— Steven Pinker

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

— Edward Kennedy

Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because…

— Leo Tolstoy

All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence...the…

— Andre Trocme

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

— Andrew Young

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

For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that…

— Steven Pinker

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Henry A. Kissinger