Crime Quote by Richard Wright

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

— Edward Kennedy

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 is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

— Patrick Stewart

I'm sure all of us agree that we need to overcome violence, but we first need to examine whether it has any value. From…

— Dalai Lama

The use of violence by individuals... is not a position that I support or would ever want to be in again.

— Susan Rosenberg

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

“The conscious or unconscious decision to use violence, or to do most anything, involves many mental and emotional processes, but they usually boil down…

— Gavin de Becker

“Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible…

— Alexander Berkman

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

— Henri Nouwen

“Violence is not just an emotion, it is a culture. Some suffer in it, some are born into it and others cannot live without…

— Isabella Poretsis

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

— Steven Pinker