Dictatorship Quote by Robert Fisk

We live in a society in the West, where, when men do violent things, they do them under orders. They are soldiers carrying out…

— Robert Fisk

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the…

— Shimon Peres

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

— Norman Lear

Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the number of violent extremist groups has grown across multiple continents. From Syria to Somalia to Pakistan, the…

— Patrick Leahy

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 only perpetrates more violence, and it becomes a vicious cycle. There are political situations all over the world where there are untold acts…

— Mandy Patinkin

It's not that tens of millions of people all want to be violent. But they share the worldview that then, at its extreme, gives…

— Tony Blair

The major violence now is because of a plethora, explosion almost, of rebel groups, all of whom oppose the government, and they're fighting each…

— Jimmy Carter

We firmly oppose the use of violence in the course of current transformations in Arab States, especially against civilians. We are well aware of…

— Sergei Lavrov

Violence among all people is based on dissatisfaction, frustration and crushed ambition and people who don't know who to strike at and who to…

— John Henrik Clarke

“Center and periphery" is a model for explaining this situation on our one earth. It makes apparent how the minority in the rich countries…

— Dorothee Soelle

Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities…

— Martin Scorsese